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Every day last week, approximately 400 U.N. prisoners arrived at Panmun jom and, by helicopter, truck and ambulance, were sped back to Freedom Village near Munsan. Some of the survivors of Communist prison camps were healthy, robust men, who grinned, waved and danced on the gravel path to the receiving tents. Some could not dance, because they were emaciated or had only one leg. Others were litter cases, undernourished or sick with tuberculosis or dysentery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Big Switch | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...Shocked. Gravel-voiced Lionel Stander, long type-cast by the movies as the rundown heel, strode into the hearing room with two luscious blondes and a lawyer, demanded that the television lights (for films, not live TV) be turned off. "I appear on television for entertainment or philanthropic purposes only, and this is neither," he rasped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Name Is Familiar | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Just after dawn, the Abilene airport picked up his voice: he was announcing by radio that he planned to crash the plane in a gravel pit and kill himself as soon as he used up his fuel supply. "Everything's all messed up," he cried. For more than three hours his plane circled overhead. Friends flew to Abilene, joined airport and CAA officials in pleading with him by radio to land. Cried Cox: "If you had done what I did, you wouldn't land." At 9:55 Cox put his plane into a dive, hit the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Flying Window Ledge | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...shot full of holes and Belle lies wounded in Brent's arms, secure in the knowledge that he will be waiting for her after she serves her jail sentence. Helping to make this horse opera practically indistinguishable from its numerous predecessors is the presence in the cast of gravel-voiced Andy Devine as a bearded itinerant trader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Sandman. The son of an immigrant suspenders maker in Chicago, Crown quit school at 14 to take a job at $4 a week as shipping clerk for a building materials company. He was fired when he mixed up orders, not knowing that it takes both sand and gravel to make concrete. At 23, after several other jobs, he and two brothers started a materials supply company of their own with a borrowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: Midwest Midas | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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