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...heart attack. Thus the stage was set for Bandera. As the Ukrainian leader hurried up the stairs of his apartment building one afternoon, Stachinsky stepped out of the shadows to meet him. The agent was wearing a gas mask, and in his hand he carried a double-barreled air pistol. Aiming carefully, he fired two pellets into Bandera's face. The capsules exploded on impact, releasing a cloud of cyanide gas. Bandera gasped the fumes and fell unconscious. He died, without gaining consciousness, on the way to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloak & Dagger: The Poison Pistol | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...want to hurt me for? I ain't done nothing. I got a heap of little chillun.' 'Y' said, I don't give a goddam how many children you got, you're going away from here.' 'Y' pulled out his pistol and stuck it against James's stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Dawdling on the Corner | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

There are lips in pistol And mist in times, Cats in crystal, And mice in chimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMES THURBER | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Ramerrez. When Johnson-Ramerrez is collared in her shack, Minnie proposes a game of poker with the sheriff-with Johnson's life and her own body as the stakes. Minnie takes that game by slipping some cards from her stocking, saves Johnson a second time by flourishing a pistol at the molasses-witted miners, marches off with Dick, singing at the curtain, "Addio, mia dolce terra, / Addio mia California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Horse, New Saddle | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Died. Leonard ("Chico") Marx, 70, sly-smiling comedian whose fake Italian accent, trademark costume of velvet jacket and pointed hat, and pistol-finger piano playing backed his four younger brothers in their own brand of joyously irreverent comedy; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. In such Marx Brothers hits as Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca, Chico convulsed fans with his deadpan translation of horn honks made by leering Brother Harpo, his wild-eyed pocket picking and shortchanging and his Chaplinesque penchant for attracting trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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