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...broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left dead. Family Friend Gus ("Bubba") Gavrel, who showed up inopportunely at the height of the carnage, was wounded; Priscilla was shot in the chest but managed to escape. Four hours later, police arrested Cullen at the home of his girl friend, Karen Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Murder in Texas | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...score stood at 0-0 through most of the competition, but a long touchdown pass from Marc M. "Bubba" Sadowsky to Jonathan H. "Crazylegs" Alter sent the Crimson surging into the lead. The Law Review defensive line, porous with loopholes, collapsed under the Crimson pressure after that point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wins, 23-2 | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...help but think of the Bubba Smith commercial. Bubba, not a bad defensive end himself a few years back, now sells Lite beer from Miller. "When I used to play," Bubba says, "I'd tackle the entire backfield and throw out the guys I didn't need." Now Bubba doesn't need calories, hence the Lite beer...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: A Noble Savage | 9/28/1977 | See Source »

Certainly with respect to the hated D.I., long noted for torturing and abusing recruits in the guise of "building men," reform has been slow in coming -as Bubba McClure learned too late. A born loser and high school dropout from Lufkin, Texas, McClure had been rejected by the Army and Air Force before he somehow passed the Armed Forces Qualification Test in San Antonio, after failing it in Lufkin. Sent last year to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, he was quickly tagged a "problem recruit" and assigned to a "motivation" platoon. When he defied orders to participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Corps on Trial | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...need very long to reach a verdict. After deliberating less than four hours-including a break for dinner -the board last week acquitted Staff Sergeant Harold Bronson of involuntary manslaughter, maltreatment and assault. Bronson, a drill instructor (D.I.), was tried for the death last March of Private Lynn E. ("Bubba") McClure. During a mock bayonet drill supervised by Bronson, other recruits beat McClure, 20, a mental retardate, into a vegetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Corps on Trial | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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