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Word: bille (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rose-Colored Mules. At 2 o'clock one morning, as Bill's black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Billy the Ca | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Only through Dominique's rose-colored mules, which she had kicked off in her agony, were the police able to identify the charred body. The first person they went looking for was, quite naturally, her protector. At first, Bill and his mistress stuck by their story-anyone, said Bill, might have an empty oil can in his car or a bunch of 7.65 shells hidden in his bathroom. But in the end, the evidence was too much. Still the compleat caïd, who would show neither pity nor remorse, Bill made a detailed confession, blandly explained: "I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Billy the Ca | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...crime became the biggest story in the Parisian press, hundreds of motorists drove out to the spot where Dominique had spent her last agonizing moments, and an ice-cream vendor did a thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Billy the Ca | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...lead in the first round, but could not stand the pace. Sam Snead, 45, got hot for one three-under-par round, then subsided. By the final 18 holes of the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Winged Foot Country Club course in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y., young (27) Bill Casper Jr. held a three-stroke lead. On the last day Bill Casper, golf's best putter, bogeyed three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back to wait, and wait. Into contention shot a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Open | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...running. Rosburg, who grips a club like a baseball bat, sank a chip shot and 30-ft. putt for successive birdies on the 11th and 12th. But on the final hole he needed to sink a 40-ft. putt to tie. It stopped a foot short, and Bill Casper was the U.S. Open champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Open | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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