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...blocks long to buy kerosene for their stoves, snow fell for the first time since 1940. Tuscaloosa, Ala. had eight inches, and Meridian, Miss. had five. In Knoxville, a motorist became so enraged at the snowball-throwing of University of Tennessee students that he jumped out of his car, pistol in hand, and dared them to throw just one more. They respectfully refrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Big Freeze | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...wish to congratulate TIME on the very good coverage of the last three months' events in France. Special commendation goes to the article titled Pistol-Packing Padre [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...except the employees under the cover of the concealed pistol of the smaller "pock-marked" desperado realized that the two smoke bombs discharged were merely a blind for a robbery...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Stick-up Cleans Coop | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Robert the Second. Bob the Second had been preparing for the job since the age of four, when he rode his first horse. He learned to rope, cut out cattle and shoot a pistol with either hand. As a boy, he used to rise before dawn, and with brother Dick and their three sisters ride 25 miles to a roundup. After dark they would ride back. Sometimes Sarah, the youngest girl, would go to sleep and fall off her horse. The others would put her back in the saddle, then wake her up to race the last mile home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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