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Shotgun in hand, six-shooters at his sides, Wyatt Earp (rhymes with burp) rode coolly this week into a Dodge City dirt street crackling with the bullets of the Old West's 30 top gunmen, hired as killers by two feuding stagecoach lines. He rode on the highest saddle in TV-third place (after the Ed Sullivan Show and / Love Lucy) in the latest Trendex popularity ratings for all U.S. network television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High in the Saddle | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...moving, wheeled and skidded them on the sidewalks-showing how much they had recently learned about maneuvering tanks in city streets-chasing people back and forth. But they never chased them away. Hundreds of people just kept dodging. Finally it was the blue-clad police, the real killers, firing burp guns, machine guns and pistols, who sent the crowd fleeing down the alleyways. Next day, as the strike continued, the crowd became even bolder. With a calm that chilled the spines of onlookers, a group of some 500 quietly stood their ground as a unit of Radar's militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Dominate or Be Destroyed | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

WHEN the Hungarians first rose in courageous revolt, their Communist government quickly cut communications with the outside world. But Western newsmen were soon shuttling across the Austro-Hungarian border. Their first piecemeal reports came back in fragments as staccato as burp-gun bursts, and first photographs could give only scattered glimpses of the struggle. This week the editors of LIFE present a report in detail and depth of the critical period of the revolution in a book called Hungary's Fight for Freedom, compiled from on-the-spot reports by TIME and LIFE correspondents and other news sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Mattel Inc.'s "Burp Gun" ($3) shoots off 50 caps in seven seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Electronic Age of Toys | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...thought and the act, who wears his entire psyche on his sleeve. From the first fine flap of his dewlaps ("Hey, give us a shot of those gorgeous green orbs") to his endearing little growl ("Who wants to grow up in the world as it is?"), to the burp he releases exquisitely in the middle of a word, More is the perfect type of the easygoing dog that everybody wants to pet but nobody wants to clean up after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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