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Seizing control of half the prison yard and adjoining buildings, they burned down the laundry building, set fires in three others. Guards and state police surrounded the rioters with machine guns and shotguns. Shouting defiance across the prison yard, Ward held a knife at a guard's back as Crazy Jack warned: "We'll toss out a dead hostage if you start shooting." But as flying wedges of guards and troopers moved in, one convict was killed and eight others wounded under orders to shoot to kill if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Riot in the Big House | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...Belgrade lawyer Nikola Mrvojevic and five confederates brandished two revolvers and a knife on a plane from Belgrade for Ljubljana, forced the pilot to head for Graz, in the British zone of Austria. In Graz, Mrvojevic asked political asylum. In his coat lining, the lawyer carried Maria Theresa dollars, gold napoleons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRON CURTAIN: Travelers | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...radio-iodine extend to patients with chronic, congestive heart disease and angina pectoris. If, as is common in such cases, the healthy thyroid's activity is too high for a damaged heart, then a dose of iodine-131 can be used instead of the surgeon's knife to reduce the gland. Two-thirds of the heart cripples so treated at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital show worthwhile improvement, and half of these are so much better that they can lead nearly normal lives. Equally gratifying, the treatment releases many patients from the agonizing "tight" pains of angina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Medicine: THE GREAT SEARCH FOR CURES ON A NEW FRONTIER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...station house, after they had told all, one of the trio apologized to Designer Parnis. (Said she: "Poor boys.") Paladino earnestly told newsmen: "Put in the papers that we didn't hurt anybody on this job. Put in there that we had a gun and a knife but we didn't use it, and tell how the gun wasn't loaded." When Commissioner Monaghan announced promotions for seven detectives, Guidice jumped dramatically to his feet, offered his hand to one of them and said: "We done a job and we failed. You done a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Three Sharpies | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...versions of Frankie and Johnnie, and no one knows just when & where it began. Frankie Baker, a young tart in St. Louis' Negro district in 1899, was sure she inspired the lament. When her man (Albert Britt) two-timed her, Frankie tongue-lashed him; when he pulled a knife on her, she shot him dead. Tried for murder, she was acquitted because she killed in self-defense. People on the streets began singing the ballad of Frankie at her, and they kept singing it as she moved westward. Mae West sang it in the Paramount film, She Done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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