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...Hedtoft struggled against the Arctic currents, icy polar winds and mountainous, 20-ft. seas. Next morning at 11:54 the Hans Hedtoft's radio crackled an S O S: "Collision with iceberg." Less than an hour later came word that the engine room was filling fast from a gash in the riveted steel hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Little Titanic | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...downtown streets, breaking store windows and thumping bystanders to show their displeasure. Maurice insists he has calmed down ("I'm too old to fight"). But just last week his Gallic temper burst out, and he whacked Detroit Forward Norm Ullman with his stick, opened up a 7-in. gash on Ullman's forehead. Explained the Rocket: "Ullman speared me twice. He deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rocket | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Dave Vietze tallied the tying goal at 18:32 of the third period, after Dick Fischer's hat trick had knotted the count at 4 to 4 just four minutes earlier. Fischer later was helped off the ice with a gash on his forehead that appeared to have been inflicted by the goalie's stick...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson Sextet Ties B.U., 5-5; Fischer Stars With Three Goals | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

...skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper Swift reversed all engines, but was too late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers cheerfully gave the submarine all the blame, and Stickleback's skipper even admitted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unlucky Ship | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...white-walled infirmary under the stands last week, Don Luis carefully snipped off Bienvenida's tight white-and-gold costume, ordered him wheeled into the operating room. There, with two assisting surgeons, he assessed the damage: four broken ribs, possibly a broken fibula (calf bone), a ten-inch gash from the right ear, which was ripped open, through the area of the parotid gland and carotid artery almost to the armpit. The outlook: muy grave-critical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon of the Cornada | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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