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...year ago, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán fell to the pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Anniversary | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...swung around a car. Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take It Easy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Selling Point. In Manhattan, Kans., Ellis Stackfleth invited an accident insurance salesman to come back later, followed him out of the house, fell on the icy pavement, broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Late last night, all that was left at Row and Mt. Auburn sts. were plies of sawdust all over the pavement and a few forlorn "State of Lampoon" parking signs

Author: By John R.W. Smail, | Title: 'Spring Rioting' by Mob Marks Lampoon's Rally | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

Pennies tinkling on the pavement brought only giggles from the Cabot Hall singers, who claimed they were just "singing for the spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Group Regales Houses with Caroling | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

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