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For a fireman, the pealing of a call-up bell is at once a summons to action, an intimation of danger, and perhaps a foreshadowing of death. Even after 26 years in the job, Tony Collis still gets an adrenaline jolt when the bell begins to ring in central London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fireman's Lament | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

In a 1986 audit, the California franchise tax board denied the deductions and ordered Agnew to pay an additional $24,197 in state taxes and interest. In an appeal last week, Agnew argued that the $24,197 should be returned to him as a tax refund on his restitution. Conway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Agnew Agonistes | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

2. Still speaking of centers and UCLA losses, when the Bruins last lost some 60 games ago in South Bend to the fightin' Irish, Tom Sinnott and Austin Carr were the guards while Sid Catlett and T. Collis Jones were in the corners, but who was N.D.'s starting center...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: The First Annual Crimson Sports Quizzer | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Everybody talked about Mann, but nobody dared do anything, since his facts were unerringly accurate. Mann had his price but he rarely used direct blackmail. Instead he "sold" his victims advertising in Town Topics, stock in his corporation (which never paid a dividend), or subscriptions to his Fads and Fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buoyant Buccaneer | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

At the Astor last week, conventioneers nominated New York Post Librarian Arthur Rosenstock, 56, to replace outgoing International President Joseph F. Collis, assistant managing editor of the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Record, reset their sights on a membership goal of 50,000, a minimum wage of $200 for experienced newsmen, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After the Crusade | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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