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...lonely road, another car crowded him to a stop. Two masked men got out, reached in from both sides, and beat McCabe with spiked lead pipes. Two hours later a motorist found him unconscious in a ditch. He had a broken arm, broken legs, a fractured kneecap, deep gashes all over his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Price of Freedom? | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Beau Jack did a little tap dance to convince the two doctors from the New York State Athletic Commission that his kneecap-broken only three months ago-was mended. They were convinced-too easily. Everybody wanted Beau Jack to fight. The ex-shoeshine boy had pulled more cash customers ($1,400,000 in gate receipts) into Madison Square Garden in 18 main events than any other boxer. In the fourth round last week against Tony Janiro, Beau tried to duck a left hook, and his kneecap cracked again, in five places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golden Goose | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...most battered officer in the Navy-he had long ago busted his left ankle and split his kneecap playing football, and he had a sort of double elbow on his left arm from an old injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Captain Dixie and the Ti | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...taking 20 times the normal dose when he surrendered eight weeks ago). Meanwhile, U.S. interrogators learned from one of Hitler's office helpers that the Führer took 5 cc.s of morphine daily, † Numerous body scars, a foot scar and an aluminum kneecap from World War I; a forehead scar from the time a bathroom skylight fell on him. He shaved off his beard last year without injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Cultural Pursuits | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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