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...staple, have been imported from the uncollectivized farms of Communist Poland; last week meat and sausage went on the ration list, to join butter, which has been strictly allocated for 18 months. For complainers, there was the ever-present fear of a Communist jail cell or a Communist pistol...
...charges ranging from armed robbery to assaulting a police officer), his training camp visitors could be excused a certain amount of nervousness. But it was all only Liston's idea of a gag. Polino's lost "teeth" were actually white beans; the gun was a blank pistol, the blood ketchup−and the victims just Liston's playacting trainers. It is his sparring partners who are the victims of Liston's real malevolence...
Aggie keeps her staff lively by occasionally firing blanks from a desk-drawer pistol, keeps the boys happy by throwing city-desk beer parties, keeps them loyal by sticking up for them. Her style has brought happy results; the Herald-Examiner is thriving, and the paper is among the Hearst chain's few solid moneymakers...
...communal marital privileges. When the terrified bride decamps on her wedding night and rejoins the gold-guarding trio, the serious shooting begins. The good-guy bad-guy struggle is dramatically tangled and intensified by the fact that Scott and Starr have intended all along to either sweet-talk or pistol-silence McCrea out of the gold...
Died. Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, 60, onetime St. Louis newspaperman who joined Hollywood's stable of screenwriters in 1928, but left in 1955 to put TV's horse opera The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp high on the Trendex trail; by his own hand (pistol); in Oxnard, Calif...