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Climbing a flight of stairs to Wilson's floor, the gangmen were ready for the guard when he walked by, and they coshed him just hard enough to keep him quiet during the getaway. With that, the men whipped out a third key to open Wilson's door. Incredibly, it was a copy of one always kept in a safe in the chief guard's office, and made available only on a guard's written signature. Wilson quickly changed into the civilian clothes they had brought him. Then they made off as they had come, without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Great Jail Break | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...counter the copters. In the early days, they tried to shoot them down with homemade shotguns and ancient French rifles; one helicopter even returned to base with an arrow stuck in its fuselage. Today, with more practice and an abundant supply of captured U.S. weapons, the Viet Cong gangmen can make things hot for the most skilled U.S. helicopter pilot. Last week the Viet Cong forces proved their prowess by shooting down five helicopters over rice marshes southwest of Saigon and inflicting a brutal defeat on the government forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Helicopter War Runs into Trouble | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...banked office, the first woman gang chieftain in Tokyo history planned a memorial service that promised to be "the biggest thing the tekiyas have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with a red carnation in his lapel, sat approvingly by her side, Mrs. Matsuda proclaimed: "I intend to carry out my husband's ideas though it may entail considerable danger to my person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Elder Sister | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news reel of the Coney Island bady parade would become interesting, and the more the subtitles, the more thrilling the picture would be. But such dreams seem doomed. The prosaic fine is more lawful than the glamorous murder, and all gangmen and impulsive female murderesses will be confined either to the screen or to the jail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIE MURDERS | 11/6/1923 | See Source »

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