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Next morning Acting Lieut. Coffey, 47, put on civilian clothes, strapped his holster to his waist, placed his service pistol in the holster. Last thing before he left home he slipped his police badge in a pocket, for identification in case anything happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At Bellevue | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Chang's Butt Sirs: How come and for why publicity of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang with pistol butt exposed in shoulder holster under right arm? (TIME, Sept. 21.) I wonder how many people noticed and commented upon this, and where they live. In this domain of Ross Shaw Sterling where National Guardsmen and Texas Rangers make pistols noticeable, we hardly miss. . . . TOM T. MAIN Tyler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Breaking Point. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart is responsible for this example of the cowhide drama. Out of her holster of dramatic tricks she has drawn a sheriff, a self-sacrificing female with crimson propensities, a leading man with amnesia. Her action takes off in the East and lands on a ranch. It is all naively melodramatic, thoroughly preposterous, terribly exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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