Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coverage of the chase and capture of a bank robber. The city desk picked up the $51,000 robbery on the police radio, dispatched its own two-way radio cars to follow the robber and police. The minute-by-minute coverage included a notable picture of the cornered gunman trying to escape by using a woman as a shield...
Trapped between gunman and bomb, the captives sweat it out through all sorts of minor melodramatic outbursts: two of the hostages unsuccessfully try to knife and shoot the desperado (Stephen Mc-Nally); a doctor (Richard Egan) performs an emergency operation on the gunman's wounded pal (Paul Kelly); the doctor's spoiled wife (Alexis Smith) sees her lover (Robert Paige) shot to death; love comes to a hard-boiled nightclub entertainer (Jan Sterling) and a reporter (Keith Andes...
...game, this water shooting, but an intricate sport requiring a special set of arms, with new models appearing annually. Most popular of the latest crop is the blood-red "shorty" model, easily palmed out of sight and fired from the hip. Its blunt barrel is designed for the lazy gunman who lacks the energy to fire further...
Crystal Clear. In Philadelphia, after Western Union Manager Stephen Stolarski dreamed of being held up, he arrived at his night job early, hastily banked $1,000 in daytime receipts, was held up two hours later by a gunman who made off with $800 in late receipts...
Robber's Mite. In Detroit, Norbert Schroll, protesting to a gunman who had lifted $56.10 from his wallet that he was on his way to church, got back $1.10 and a growl: "That ought to be enough for the collection plate...