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...swarmed up to the gallery. With an instrument made from stolen brass toilet parts, he spread the bars, squirmed inside and stood against the wall, waiting. Burch came back. Coy slugged him, took his rifle, .45 pistol, keys and let himself into D block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Revolt on the Rock | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...there had been one fatal slip. Guard Miller had managed to throw away the key to the yard door. When the convicts realized this Cretzer babbled: "Well, that does it up. San Francisco is just as far away." With one pistol, one rifle, and less than 50 rounds of ammunition, Coy and his desperate men settled down to holding off the besiegers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Revolt on the Rock | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Many a good burgher had been stuck up with a souvenir pistol from Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Shakedown I | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...days, Siam's police were "very ashamed that no arrests had been made" but "most confident the robbers will be caught." Siam's King was not so sure. While the search went on, somebody had crept into the royal bedchamber and copped his favorite 7.65-mm. Mauser pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Hey, That's Mine | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Esquire Theater. "Henry" was cut, but not badly. Finding one or two words in the first set too rich for the blood, the Boston censor has climinated part of one scene. What standard of censorship was employed, however, remains a mystery, since all of the world play on Pistol's name has been retained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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