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...enemy has installed himself in Saxony and in the Thuringian salient, 150 kilometers from the Rhine. This salient is, in the heart of Germany and toward the heart of France, a ... loaded pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 23 Days to Paris | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...Japs didn't finish him off after pistol-whipping him, trussing him up and dangling his feet over the edge of a death ditch. Author Braddon still doesn't know. Instead, his captors yoked him to eight fellow-Aussies, prodded the group with bayonets and jeers of "Georgey Six, number ten! Tojo, number one!" and marched them off to Pudu, a prison camp in Kuala Lumpur. On the way, the sons of the Rising Sun treated Braddon to some grisly samples of the new order. At one point, his guards collared a senile old Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Test of Humanity | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...last October a mild-mannered, grey-haired little woman walked into the California Bank on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, quietly approached a teller's window, and laid a note on the counter. This done, she raised a paper bag in which she seemed to be holding a pistol, and waited patiently. The teller read the message: "This gun will talk and don't think I can't use it," and handed over $1,212 in currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Grandma | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Daily News Critic Jack Mabley emptied both barrels at Cowboy Roy Rogers. Mabley reported that in a single episode of the Roy Rogers Show, "two men beat an old man . . . The old man is permanently blinded by the attack. Two men beat a dog about the head with a pistol . . . The men again attack the g as he is leading the old man on a mountain trail. The old man cries for help, tries to find the dog, and plunges over a cliff to his death on the rocks. A veterinarian who is a thief kills an injured companion with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sinful & Suggestive? | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...tight and began making passes at a house guest from England. Ousman threw the young prince out. Next day, still drunk and blind with rage, the prince showed up, demanding the girl for his private collection. Once again Ousman tried to throw him out. The prince drew a pistol and began firing. The vice consul was killed, his wife wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Dry Desert | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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