Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matches with non-college opponents the ruggers lost to the Montreal Barbarians, 9 to 8, and beat a British Combined Services team 25 to 0, to even their season's record...
NOBODY laughed when TIME'S Montreal Bureau Chief Byron Riggan sat down to relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response...
...premise that he can do his work without getting lynched, shot at or otherwise assaulted by anything more deadly than epithets. Sometimes the premise proves wrong, and last week one of those times came for Alabama-born Reporter Byron Riggan, 34, chief of TIME'S bureau in Montreal...
...night Riggan was relaxing in his apartment on Peel Street, in a gracious midtown sector of the city, after a hard week's work on a story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that...
Riggan described the attack to police, who advised him to "buy a gun and shoot first" next time. Both major Canadian wire services, Canadian Press and British United Press, picked up the story. It received heavy play in the Montreal newspapers, particularly the evening Herald, which has been waging an indignant anti-hoodlum editorial campaign. Riggan, onetime Birmingham Post-Herald reporter who has been a TIME correspondent in Canada since 1953, was troubled less by his injuries (which were minor) than by regret that he had not made it a better story. "What rankles most," he joked, "is reading...