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...Workman (C) led at the firing of the pistol. Wilberforce (C) then went to the front and stayed there for a mile and 2/3, when he dropped out on account of a stitch in his side...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: This Spring's Track Meet Against Oxford-Cambridge Revives a Long Tradition | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Pressure Point. In Sydney. Australia, Allan Inglis, 34, was fined $67 for illegal possession of a gun after visiting his estranged wife with two bottles of champagne and an unloaded pistol, hoping either to celebrate an immediate reconciliation or to scare her into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair of inept hoodlums, passing up Karp's well-heeled liquor store, rob Morris instead and pistol-whip him when they find only $10 in his cash register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Grocer | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...first time that a Latin American dictator had struck at Jules Dubois. Dubbed the "No.1 Gangster of U.S. Journalism" by Perón's kept press, Jules Dubois, 47. is a shrewd, belligerently honest reporter of the old school who has been pistol-whipped, jailed and shot at in the course of covering revolutions in ten-Latin American countries. During Costa Rica's 1948 revolt against its pro-Communist government, six Red goons worked Dubois over with rifle butts. A month later, while covering a revolution in Colombia, Dubois phoned a blow-by-blow story to the Trib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Freedom Fighter | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...over . . . Long live poetry!" Then, grabbing Object to Destroy, they were gone-but with Dadaist Man Ray puffing after them, crying: "They're stealing my painting!" Not far from the gallery, the Jarivistes stopped and set down the one-eyed metronome. One of them hauled out a pistol, took aim and fired, destroying Object to Destroy. At that point the police appeared, late but ardent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Battle of the Nihilists | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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