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...show coming, and by Pearl Harbor, bossed an air force of trained American volunteers, which never numbered more than 55 flyable P-40s and 80 pilots. For $600 a month and $500 a kill, his Flying Tigers knocked the Zeros out of the sky. "Make 'em play your way," he said, and his pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Hooded Falcon | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Kennedy's treat-'em-rough school of police enforcement may cause "New York's Battle of the Streets" to become even grimmer than it is at present: total war between zip-gun toters and club-swinging police, with the innocent citizen in the middle of it all. The man in blue should not just be a faceless, gun-slinging symbol of an aloof society; antagonism can only beget hate and make the accomplishment of police duties that much more difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...President of the U.S. turned to General Twining. "All right," said he. "We'll send 'em in. Nate, put it into operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: An Act in Time | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...pennant-contender club needs three solid starters, and the missing man is Righthander Ruben Gomez, a 15-game winner last year who has been blasted consistently in recent starts. Of his rickety pitching staff, Rigney says hopefully: "All they have to do is go out there and hold 'em for awhile, because this club is going to score runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Heart-Stoppers | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...kind of game we pleases, runs rooster fights and pitfights, bulldogs and such. We gets by right-near the same as all these old poor-rumped people around here does." Asked how he knew the defendant stole hogs, the record's answer: "Because I sometimes hold 'em whilst he knocks 'em in the haid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pressagent's Delight | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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