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At 12:33 on the clear summer afternoon of June 27, the American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's...
On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue recently, an odd-looking, snub-nosed little car drew some mildly curious stares. Few of the onlookers realized that it was a postwar model of the Volkswagen, the car which Hitler once promised to put in every German garage. With an air-cooled rear...
When snub-nosed Wayne Long walked out of the old brick state penitentiary at Salem, Ore. one day last week, FBI agents had the word and they were on hand to tail him. Twenty-five-year-old Long was a toughie all right; he had three stretches for stealing and...
The next day, Indiana's Senator Homer E. Capehart nosed into an $18.5 million RFC loan granted to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc. for construction of a synthetic gasoline plant and pipeline in Texas. Republican Stalwart Capehart found that Hydrocol's president is none other than G.O.P. National Chairman Guy...
After 23 years as a manager with five major-league clubs (including the Tigers, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees), bulb-nosed, sun-scarred Bucky Harris, 53, has mellowed. As the Senators' fiery, hardhitting second baseman and one of the best in the majors, he once deliberately stomped his spiked...