Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were sworn in to help the eight Clinton cops in a vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander of the vigilantes, a lawyer and paratroop veteran of Korea's Heartbreak Ridge named Leo W. Grant Jr. Said one of Grant's citizens: "Hell, it ain't a matter of wanting or not wanting niggers in the school, it's a matter...
What might be the final word on giveaways comes from TV comedy Writer-Director Nat (Phil Silvers Show) Hiken, who whimsically suggests a show called A Million or Your Life'. "The contestant will stand in front of the TV camera and face two gun barrels. He will have a string leading to the triggers on the two barrels. One will be loaded with a dud containing a check for $1,000,000-the other with a live 37mm. shell guaranteed to tear his head off. If he pulls the wrong string-kaputt...
...Stan Musial sees it, he has a couple of good seasons left in his long, record-rich career. As soon as he decides he no longer has it, he will quit. If boos from the stands egg management into beating him to the gun, it will be St. Louis' loss, not Stan...
Supersonic Gatling Gun. Designed to kill in the split-second world of supersonic aircraft, a 20-mm. cannon that spews 8,000 shells a minute was announced this week by General Electric, co-developer with Army Ordnance of the gun for the Air Force. The cannon, nicknamed the Vulcan, has six rotating barrels that fire in succession, is patterned directly after the hand-cranked rapid-fire gun invented in 1862 by American Richard J. Gatling and used in the Spanish-American...
Died. Samuel McPherson ("Golf Bag") Hunt, 55, legendary disciplinarian for Al Capone, who scorned the traditional violin case, jolted fashion-conscious Chicago colleagues by carrying his submachine gun where his mashie should have been (and reputedly dubbed his first shot, whose target survived to be known as "Sam Hunt's Hole in One"), was arrested for many Chicago murders, convicted for none during Prohibition years and the decade following, later became the man to see in Chicago bookmaking; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Schenectady...