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...Will Not Kill You." When he disappeared. Dean was exhausted and dazed. In the darkness he fell down an embankment, was knocked unconscious. Hours later, he came to with a nasty gash on his left temple, a fractured shoulder. He limped into a clump of bushes and hid until nightfall. After two days of playing hound & hare with North Korean patrols. Dean came on a fellow American, Lieut. Stanley E. Tabor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Soldier's Soldier | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Rocky's onslaught was clumsy, primitive and often skirted the rules. In round two, when LaStarza refused to back off from one ferocious rush, Marciano just kept charging, butted a gash above LaStarza's right eye. Next round, Rocky caught his man with a left after the bell. A chant rose from the challenger's corner: "Dirty fight! Dirty fight!" A few rounds later, Rocky caught LaStarza below the belt, drew his fourth warning, lost the round for the low punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Simple Idea | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...news again. His new Flying Enterprise smacked its 8,000 tons into the 7,000-ton British freighter Canara while tugs were nudging her toward a berth in Bombay Harbor, India. Damage to the Canara was "extensive," but the Enterprise came off with a mere five-foot gash above the water line. "I feel heartbroken," moaned Carlsen. "If there's one man in the world who does not want anything to happen to the Flying Enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 31, 1953 | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Choice of Weapons. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Ramon Toledo, carrying a knife when arrested, was fined $40 for tearing an 8-in. gash on his wife's arm-with his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...prisoner to the station house and was then treated at St. Luke's Hospital for bruises of both shoulders, 4) reported back to duty, 5) jumped into the Hudson River in near-freezing temperature and rescued a drowning man, 6) retired to a hospital again to have a gash in his leg stitched up, and 7) was put to bed and treated for chills, submersion and shock. Shrugged he, in character: "It's all in a day's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Americana | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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