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...orita Bombal herself once contemplated suicide. That was in Santiago in 1941. Instead, she ran into an old fiancé, impulsively drew from her handbag a Mauser pistol, fired four shots into him. He recovered, forgave, filed no charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Escapist | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...away from home, Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.'s eleven-room Maryland manse burned to the ground. Estimated loss: $100,000. John L. Lewis' maiden daughter, Kathryn, 35, who lives in wooded country not far from Sing Sing, N.Y., got a permit to keep a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...shrewdly suspected that they had not reported their take on their income tax. The superintendents gave in. When the C.I.O. tied up all other dairies in a strike, the Servicemen went right on delivering. The union threatened violence. Kennedy passed out baseball bats to his men, got pistol permits. There was no violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Milky Way | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...hairy, meaty youth with cold eyes and a brawler's arms. An ugly scar disfigured his left cheek-the mark of a fiery little Sicilian who was the first and last man ever to cut him with a knife. He fought with either his fists or a pistol. By the time he was 19, he was skilled in robbery, and was suspected of two murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Al | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Armed Force. In Savannah, Mrs. Violet Mackey, animal-farm owner, tangled with a four-foot alligator that clamped onto her arm, vainly struggled to get free, finally dragged the reptile into the house, got a pistol, shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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