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...part because Murphy attacked a Viet Cong with the only weapon left, his teeth, which he sank into the guerrilla's neck. Soon afterward Murphy was flown home, and was making some travel arrangements in a phone booth in Seattle when he looked up to see "a hairy bastard," presumably an antiwar activist who did not like people in uniform, poised to throw a tomato at him. Murphy bolted toward him, knocked him to the floor and sank his teeth into the man's neck as police pulled him away. No charges were brought. Murphy, now pursuing religious studies, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

More than half a million people have applied to leave the country legally, but under the Orderly Departure Program, only about 300 emigrants a week make it out. Many are the bastard children of G.I.s. Says Refugee Tran Thi My Chau, 17: "Everybody called me con lai (half-breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Pinched and Hermetic Land | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...AMERICA--LET'S KEEP ALL THREE. Inside, an army of tattoos comes to attention as the houselights fall, the speakers blare That's Entertainment, and the giant screen flashes the words LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: WRESTLEMANIA. The magic moment has arrived. And so, for the moment, has the bastard sport of pro wrestling. From glittery Manhattan (where some aficionados were offering $200 for a good seat) to good-ole-boy Kissimmee, in closed-circuit auditoriums in the U.S. and 26 foreign countries, wrestling fans of all collars are savoring the triumph of hype, hell raising and Hulk Hogan. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Regan's uncle by marriage happened to be a senior partner was hardly a hindrance, but not even his detractors claim that his rise was based on nepotism. An important mentor was Robert Magowan, son-in-law of Co-Founder Charles Merrill, who described Regan as "the brashest little bastard I've ever seen." When that billing got back to Regan, the 6-ft. ex-Leatherneck protested, "I'm not little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Rhyme and Reason | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...father imperiously takes his son off to London in 1757. Reading law at the Inns of Court serves to strengthen the young student's monarchist tendencies. Moreover, the circumstances of his birth only serve to deepen William's belief in British law. Observes Randall: In 1758, "William Franklin, bastard son of a provincial printer, was called to the English bar . . . In every sense, William had become an English gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Collision of Genes and Temper :A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

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