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After taking 15 minutes to dress, Murphy dived into the muddy waters armed with only a flashlight, since it was dark then. He came up with the club after searching for about a quarter of an hour. Murphy said he found the club stuck upright in about a foot of mud, eight feet under the surface, and about 20 feet from the bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frogman Retrieves Lost Golf Club Thrown into Muddy Charles River | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

...side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Trooper's Last Words | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Dashboard Shaver. North American Phillips Co. put on the market an electric shaver (the Norelco Sportsman) that operates on three flashlight batteries, can also be plugged into an automobile cigarette lighter socket. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...lieutenant slugged Pang with his flashlight, then pistol-whipped him with a .45. Pang slumped to the floor, senseless. Rushed by a jeep to a Marine sick bay, then by helicopter to a hospital ship, Pang Wha II died four days later without regaining consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Death of a Preacher | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...woman thought her visitors were public-health inspectors, pointed to a malodorous closet, exclaimed, "The proprietor's got a bathroom all in marble." In the growing darkness, Baudouin lit his way with a flashlight. Boys ran ahead of him calling, "The King is coming." In one crumbling house, when the King wanted to go upstairs, the residents were aghast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Education of a King | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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