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Idaho. Harriet ("Babe") Hansen, who at 50 is an experienced rancher, ex-sergeant in the WAC, forest ranger, and wilderness guide, won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Boise County. Said sturdy "Babe," who wears a 10-gallon hat, reportedly can pick the eye out of a grouse at 100 yds., and has shot 75 mountain lions: "I think I'm qualified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Private Lives | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Julius Rosenberg and his wife were listening to the Lone Ranger with their two young sons when a stranger rapped on the door of their battered and drab apartment near the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. Twelve men filed in from the small hallway and announced that they were from the FBI. They arrested 32-year-old Julius Rosenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: No. 4 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Alone of the four arrested so far, Rosenberg stoutly insisted on his innocence. The FBI's story, said he, was "fantastic-something like kids hear on the Lone Ranger program." Three days after Rosenberg's arrest,Harry Gold pleaded guilty in federal court to all the FBI's charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: No. 4 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

This week, to show its listeners what they were missing, and how glad they should be, WNEW was punctuating its station breaks with burlesque versions of soap operas and crime thrillers. Sample: "And now . . .Chapter 2025 of Barbara Babbitt, Girl Ranger. Yesterday, you'll recall, we left Barbara pleading with the district attorney for the life of Cuddles, her Oriental leopard. Meanwhile,unknown to either Barbara or Cuddles, Wambly Townsend, the handsome young accountant, is at this very moment flying to the state capital to ask. . . for a reprieve. Will Wambly Townsend succeed in his desperate race against time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Happy Station | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...letters wherein the British, led by the great T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, have excelled through two world wars- the crisp, lively, unimpassioned military-diplomatic memoir. Moreover, Escape to Adventure has a highly topical fascination in that it reflects the destiny of today's would-be lone ranger: try as he may to make his adventurous career a personal affair, he is pretty likely to wind up half lost in a huge crowd, becoming (in the words of one of Maclean's sergeants) just another of the " - ing cogs in this gigantic - organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador-Leader | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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