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Two years ago, an 8-lb. dumbbell used to prop a window screen slipped from a maid's frantic grasp and plummeted eight floors from the Ritz Tower Hotel to hit and fatally injure a vacationing Detroit financier walking up Manhattan's 57th Street toward Park Avenue with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 29, 1962 | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

"Within two minutes the star was in the center of the halo, which appeared to be about ten times the size of the moon. Then the star became elongated, in a dumbbell shape, as if a separation were taking place. Then the missile became a spot of light as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: On Target | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

Alvin Rodecker, musing over the luncheon at Le Pavilion, turned cheerfully to his wife. "Holy cow!" he said. "That was expensive. But it was worth it. We're really celebrating." At that instant the plummeting dumbbell cracked his skull. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but Rodecker never regained consciousness, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Celebration | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

¶ Mr. Kissel, "a giant for strength and size" but such a mute dumbbell that when he manages to say "pass the bacon," he gives an impression of pithy wisdom. First-rate with rifle or ax; has been known to throw a bully 30 ft. without having him bounce.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold Rush Huck Finn | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

The Dumbbell. Nowhere in Molotov's 3,000-word Pravda article was there mention of an earlier claimant to the same honor, whose name today is actually carved beside that of Lenin on the famous tomb in Red Square: Stalin. Since Stalin had long ago seen to it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Down Memory Lane | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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