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...this house?" A moment later, he returned, carrying his snuffling, snowsuited daughter. He handed her the first object that came to hand, a plastic Red Cross that he was using in the taping. "Here, Caroline," he soothed, "want a nice red cross? You've got that cap pistol in one hand, you might want this for the other." Caroline Kennedy's tears quickly evaporated, and she scampered off, all smiles, to rejoin her nurse. "Have a very nice walk." her father called after her as he turned back to the cameras. Another small domestic crisis solved...
...instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24,000 men, many of them good, some of them not, most of them as contentious as only a New Yorker -and a uniformed one at that-can be. Stubborn, straight as a pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride in New York's Finest, and along the way became just about the city's best police boss since Teddy Roosevelt stalked the night streets rooting out deadbeat cops...
...seems to know what happened next. Some said an African went berserk, and his wild screams set off a chain reaction of panic among the jampacked whites. Whatever started it, there were shouts and screams from the road outside, then pistol shots. The mourners in the cemetery ran wildly over the graves. Men picked up sticks, clubs and stones, began cursing and crying, "Mata Todos!" (Kill them...
...Year of the Firing Squad, there was one man the Cubans could have any time: Herman Marks, 39, Castro's first Lord High Executioner who commanded the guns in 200 executions, more often than not personally delivering the pistol coup de grâce to each victim. Born in Milwaukee, Marks was arrested 32 times in the U.S., jailed in Wisconsin, Ohio and California (vagrancy, assault, draft dodging, theft, rape), joined Castro's forces in December 1957 and was made a captain. The U.S. canceled his citizenship with alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach...
...this bothered Gann unduly. Even the inevitable accidents flying with the Air Transport Command all over the world were taken as part of the job. He developed a veteran's pride as he passed the word to the swaggering newcomers who joined him on the job, the pistol-packing service pilots who had been rushed through Army flight schools. "These were the brave aerial children who would soon go down in flame and history as the Eighth Air Force. Later, when we brought them back, the accoutrements were gone. They wore medals instead, and all the innocence was gone...