Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cook picked up a friend, Jimmy Parks, 33, a fight promoter, and one of the county's numerous "special," i.e., honorary, deputy sheriffs with the privilege of flashing a badge and toting a pistol. Then the pair took off for Houston, stopping occasionally on the way to fortify themselves with beer. "I got to thinking," Cook later recalled, "if I could go over to Houston and clean up the case and bring the man and the money back to San Antonio and dump it all in the lap of the police chief, I would be famous." Finally...
Jubol (Columbia). "I like my coffee strong enough to float a pistol," somebody says to this movie's hero (Glenn Ford). The hero nods. It just can't be too strong for him, because he has the worst kind of trouble a hombre west of the Pecos can have-short of having his horse eat locoweed. He has woman trouble (Valerie French). It's bad enough that she is the boss's wife. What's worse, the boss (Ernest Borgnine) is Glenn's best friend...
With fist, boot, pistol and general finagling, he made his way through New York's Tammany Hall, took on a doxy named Fanny White, whom he found in a brothel, earned the enmity of Editor James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Bennett called him "Aunfit" for a diplomatic post, so Sickles devised a subtle revenge: when he got to London, he presented his favorite tart of the moment to Queen Victoria as "Miss Bennett...
...Friday, April 12, police surrounded the conference site and made an unprovoked attack on the delegates with pistol butts, sticks, and knives...
Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack a rocket pistol. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...