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...night last week, while taking off from tiny Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Short Wave | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Buster. Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Francis Sonnett ended a Justice Department guessing-game last week by taking over as antitrust chief from Wendell Berge, retiring to enter a Washington law firm. His successful prosecution of the John Lewis contempt case made him the Justice Department's brightest star. Handsome, young (34) John Sonnett likes tough, tricky cases. He will have plenty-44 of the U.S.'s biggest corporations are defendants in pending antitrust suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACTS & FIGURES: Mostly Good | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Chief consolations: Lee Tover's crisp camera work; Wallace Ford as a retired safe-buster; and the enormously proficient Mr. Bogart, who can just sit in a phone booth and make a long-distance call to St. Louis crackle with life and interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...self-portraits which now & then appeared in Delvaux's canvases looked even more out of place than the nudes; they exhibited the frozen face and faintly old-fashioned garb of a latter-day Buster Keaton, stalking gloomily amidst his dream harem or lifting his hat to a bare-backed girl friend, as in The Meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nudes Out of Place | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...brushed past the men in the heavy rimmed glasses who were fluttering around the dirty-legged Radcliffe girl on the steps of Emerson. "Buster, things have changed," he said to one of the tweed jackets. The answer was an unseeing eye. "The New England Frappe Bar, men with women and General Education." Vag agreed with himself-- "Things have certainly changed." He elbowed his way through the perfumed corridor to audit a general education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/22/1946 | See Source »

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