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...Coley B. Chapman, 26, a Negro laborer for the Long Island Rail Road, was waiting for a train in Washington's Union Station when Terminal Policeman Carl Neuman tried to arrest him for drunkenness. In the scuffle, a bullet from Neuman's revolver entered Chapman's forehead, came out just behind the hairline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Question of Initiative | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...telephone, the word came from Trainer Hirsch and Owner Bob Kleberg. The vet placed the bell-shaped horse gun on Air Lift's forehead, fired the shot.* The colt toppled over on his side. The stable hands who stood around could think of nothing much to say. They had seen horses die before-but few with as much promise as Air Lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Son of Bold Venture | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...team back in the game. Three innings later he homered again, to win it. After the game, Joe Dugan, an old Yankee third baseman who used to play with Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound the Red Sox and sweep the series. After the sportwriters ran out of superlatives, all the great DiMaggio could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeback | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Veteran Stripper and sometime Litterateur Gypsy 'Rose Lee, currently touring the Midwest with her own girlie show in a carnival, discoursed on what it takes for success in stripteasing. "Brains! To go on year after year," said she, pointing to her forehead, "you got to have it up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Yvonne is really suffering from "vestiges of ... Episcopalian superego" and that it can only be cured by her indulging in a bit of homosexuality herself, when in charges Nuclear Physicist Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Degeneration of Vipers | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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