Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What in heaven's name is happening to this country? Is every editor and everybody-not excluding McCarthy's nonstop idiocies and Eisenhower's latest fiasco in the tactless gift of a pistol to General Naguib-all hellbent on the suicidal lunacy of showing just how cheap and silly...
...right to the jaw, and revives her by pouring a bottle of beer in her face. The B-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle. A Communist spy (Richard Kiley) beats up and shoots the girl, hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks out the spy by smashing his head against a wall, slugs it out with him on a subway platform and on the tracks in front of an oncoming train...
...road and peered into the car. A blonde girl of 15 was sitting beside him. The driver, one Alton Franks, 19, explained that the girl was his wife. The cops grunted noncommittally and asked for his driver's license. He had none. Then they spotted a .38-caliber pistol on the back seat. They hauled Franks, his car, his girl and his gun into headquarters...
...president of Winchell's pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952 et seq.). Recently Lyons lighted a firecracker under Winchell by writing a letter to New York City's Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan. The letter suggested that Monaghan revoke Winchell's pistol-toting permit, unless Winchell could pass a "psychiatric" test...
...once a practicing lawyer, was, however, fascinated by the suggestion that Winchell would be acquitted if he pushed Lyons under the wheels of a truck. Said Lyons in a "personal" to Commissioner Monaghan last week: "This ... is public notice to you to pick up his permits and the pistol he carries or else the City of New York shall be held accountable for any consequences." Lyons also challenged Winchell to a duel by intelligence test-"low I.Q. pays all." Then Lyons applied a needle to Winchell's most painfully vulnerable point. Said he triumphantly: "The true measure [of Winchell...