Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet suburb 20 miles from the bustle of Manhattan, Alicia Patterson's tabloid Newsday (circ. 180,964) has never been content to lead the quiet life of a suburbanite. Almost two months ago, when Yonkers Raceway's Labor Boss Tommy Lewis was murdered by a hired gunman (TIME, Oct. 5), Newsday said pointedly: the Yonkers trotting track is "40 miles from [Long Island's] Roosevelt Raceway, but only inches separate [them] in operating procedure." Newsday knew what it was talking about. Unheeded by other papers or by state officials, Newsday had been loudly hammering away for more...
Last August, Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis was murdered outside his Bronx apartment by a hired gunman who was killed, in turn, by a policeman. Lewis was president of Local 32-E of the A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes' Union, which had free rein at Yonkers Raceway...
Before entering the mansion, the candidates left their firearms in their cars (police found two rifles, eleven pistols). But when Mohammed's aide saw that el Ali was accompanied by a notorious gunman, he warned his master to keep his pistol. Replied Mohammed: "No. That would be disrespect for the President." He went into the house unarmed. When he left the meeting, the gunman confronted him. "The Abbouds have tyrannized us for 50 years," he cried. Then he fired five shots into Mohammed. Guards seized the gunman. Two days later, Mohammed died, telling clansmen that...
Hannah Lee (Jock Broder Productions) refers to a cowboy ballad used as background music to one more encounter between the wicked cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down...
...hand. He loses that faith when he kills a man in the ring, and heads across the border to forget about it. There he meets Linda, for whom faith seems to be nothing more than confidence that she can keep one wiggle ahead of Jack Palance, a really frightening gunman who offers her a choice between death and a fate worse than that...