Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to defeat Patterson. Nominee Patterson, who had campaigned on a promise to shut down gambling and other vice in his wicked home town of Phenix City (pop. 23,000), prepared to testify before the grand jury. Before he could do so. he was murdered by a gunman in a Phenix City parking lot (TIME, June 28). Patterson's son John took his place as the nominee, and Governor Gordon Persons† shut down Phenix City gambling hells and honky-tonks...
...wasn't Gable, and I flopped." He came back to Broadway-to the Depression and three long years of disappointment and debt. Then Producer Arthur Hopkins cast him (despite the doubts of Bogart's friend, Playwright Robert Sherwood) in a new kind of role: the Dillinger-like gunman Duke Mantee, in The Petrified Forest...
Meanwhile, a rather effete type (Vincent Price) keeps trying to cut in. But Price turns out unexpectedly to be "a notorious New York gunman," and Actress Laurie takes a bad fall off a cliff. Bouncy little Piper bounces back, only to take another tumble into a crevasse where Price lies dying interminably in shaved ice. As she shivers on a frigid shelf above the killer, the audience shivers in sympathy. But Piper, as the camera reveals when Victor hauls her out on a hawser, needs no sympathy to keep her warm. She is wearing snuggies...
...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
Gentleman's Agreement. In Los Angeles, after forcing Grocery Clerk George Albert to hand over $1,263.61 in a paper bag, a gunman eyed his loot, remarked: "It don't look like a lot, but you can report it as $10,000. If they catch me, I'll confess to that sum. Are you happy...