Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caton. As Paratrooper Lieut. Colonel Jean Pierre and one of his sergeants broke in, Yacef and his girl friend Zohra scrambled through a trapdoor into a secret chamber above the stairwell of the house. Before he slammed the trapdoor shut, Yacef cut loose with a burst of machine-gun fire, then tossed down a hand grenade that went off in the paratroopers' faces but did not seriously wound them. "Surrender, Yacef," shouted the French officer, "or we'll blow up the staircase...
Remembering the three-hour fight to the death put up by two of Yacef's lieutenants a month earlier (TIME, Sept. 9), the Legionnaires expected a machine-gun burst for an answer. Instead, Yacef called back: "I'll surrender if you treat me as a prisoner of war." Thus began a strange, two-hour parley during which Yacef added one more condition: "Don't take Zohra away from me. We don't want to be separated." Finally, at 5:30 he shouted: "Throw up our clothes. We're nearly naked." Then, hands overhead and properly...
Cornell will be seeking to avenge last year's surprise defeat, when the Crimson upset the Big Red, 32 to 7, at Ithaca. The biggest gun in the Cornell arsenal will be the running of fleet halfback Bo Roberson, particularly around the ends. But Yovicsin, who watched Cornell's game last Saturday, does not class the Big Red as predominantly a running team. He points out that Tom Skypeck's passing gives the Ithacans an effective, balanced attack...
...controversy arose as one referee whistled for the penalty shot just as the pistol sounded to end the second overtime. Tufts' official time keeper asserted, "I shot the gun and you blew the whistle." Two minutes later, he became unsure of the precise sequence of events and the game was ruled...
...subject is a living person, a nightclub comedian named Joe E. Lewis.* In his youth on the Chicago nightclub circuit, Comedian Lewis distinguished himself as one of the very few who could make Al Capone laugh. He failed, however, to amuse a colleague of Capone's named Machine Gun Jack McGurn, who in a fit of pique caused Lewis' brains to be rearranged with pistol butts and his voice box to be sliced very fine indeed. After that, hardly able to talk. Lewis took a dive into the nearest bottle and pulled the cork in behind...