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...kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been a little unusual, and sold the jail to Appliance Dealer Edward Walsh Jr. (who wanted the timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...with a penknife, or shaped with ordinary woodworking tools without harming them. With Do-It-Yourself Aluminum, available in 36 items -rods, sheets, bars, angles and tubing-any handy amateur can make furniture, metal awnings, tool boxes or storm windows and screens. Cost of materials for an average-size, null storm window: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads until he has been deposed. If I accept, as millions of other Western Europeans do, that America is destined to be the mainstay of freedom in this null century world, it does not follow that American institutions are perfect, that Americans are invariably well behaved, or that the American way of life is flawless. It only means that in one of the most terrible conflicts in human history, I have chosen my side, as all will have to choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: AN ANATOMY OF NEUTRALISM | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Japan's null National Safety Force, limited by Japanese law to the maintenance of "internal order," should be renamed "Self-Defense Force," and should be built up to oppose direct foreign aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Self-Defense Force | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Without barking (one yip would mean disqualification) and guided only rarely by whistles, calls or hand signals from Allen, Rock outstared, outflanked and outsmarted the flock around the course. He drove them through null gates set up in right and left field, losing two points for failing to usher a stray ewe through one gate. Finally, Rock worked them all over to a small pen which Allen had opened. Glaring fiercely, the dog got four sheep to back slowly inside. However, a rebellious old ewe charged at Rock. Without even "popping his jaws" (snapping with feigned ferocity) or guiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Hypnotic Dog | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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