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Sanctuary. In Atlanta, an injured pigeon with its tail feathers gone and right side badly mangled interrupted its homeward flight long enough to alight on the lawn of the S.P.C.A. for repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Monstrosities & Martyrs | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Martha | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Then came the climactic announcement of secession from the civilized world and the release of the "Ceremonial Dove"--apparently a plain Yard pigeon--which was countered by release of several dozen balloons and a great deal of water from Adams House...

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

...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: High Roads & Dead Pigeons | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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