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...took 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his life, battling such miserable miscreants as Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, Mumbles, the Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1981 | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...that still leaves the pneumatic drills, which provide a rude awakening at 7:15 a.m. Solutions to the pulsating vibrations ranged from clogging the pistons with molasses to picking off the operators with B-B guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around-the-Clock Construction Din Prompts Loud Complaints at 'Cliffe | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

...B-B Shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...sketches: N-ney H-m-lt-n, S-m--l T-yl-r, W-lly C-x; settings: J-M--lz-n-r; cast: J--n McCr-ck-n, W-lly C-x, Ann Th-m-s, M-r-n L-rne, B-b Seh--r-r, and a performing dog named...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Several Adams House men don't believe in "that be kind to dumb animals stuff" any more, according to latest reports from the cat front. They have been feeding a feline through a B-B gun hole in the window of a store on Bow Street, wherein the tabby was trapped, for the last few days. But they weren't able to get enough food in that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cats Can Be Cantankerous, Say Foiled Feline-Fanciers | 6/5/1942 | See Source »

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