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...long and detailed correspondence with Dean Bundy. Attempting to prove "deliberate falsehood" and "suppression of the truth" in Schlesinger's treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti murder case, Montgomery pointed out at least three factual errors, and the omission of the "single most damning piece of evidence"--the .32 calibre pistol carried by Saco and containing the rare and absolete type of cartridge that killed the guard...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Craig K. Comstock, S | Title: 'Veritas' Hits 'Red Infiltration' at Harvard | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

Thigh Noon. In Clinton, S.C., when Joe Spillers and Edgar Ballew tried to see who could beat the other to the draw, neither man got his pistol out of its holster, each shot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...spot. Riddle is devoted to man's best friend ("I'm just a sucker for dogs"), but he considers biting (especially Riddle) the unpardonable sin. To a lady asking how to cure her dog of chewing on the baby, Riddle replied tersely: "With a .45 pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bark with Bite | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...intruders began bludgeoning Parker with a pistol, another with a stick. A third picked up a garbage can and hit him. Parker went down, bleeding. "I didn't do it!" he cried again. "Well, who did?" demanded a man. Wildly, furiously, Parker pointed at his fellow prisoners: "He did it!" The raiders began dragging him toward the stairs. One of them turned to the other five frightened prisoners and warned: "Keep your damn mouths shut!" Parker wailed: "Don't take me out! Don't let them kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Lynch Law | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...College Education. Each day grief-stricken Little Doll placed fresh flowers on Big Pasquale's grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: La Legge d'Onore | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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