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Like Hobin Hood, the once pious Man Singh had become an outlaw first because of a fancied injustice. Like Robin's, his crimes were said to be aimed only at the rich and powerful. He was always generous to the widows of those he had killed. and he was just in his own rough way. But as the legend of his terror spread across some 8,000 square miles of Indian territory, a price of $3,000 was put on Man Singh's head. Through the years, the police of four states schemed, connived and risked their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Dead Man | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...also get a new cartoon series made by UPA, the producers of Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, the new Phil Silvers show, long film dramas by 20th Century-Fox, a weekly mystery show produced by suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock, and a new children's series, The Adventures of Robin Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Using all his carefully controlled skill against the league-leading Dodgers, Robin Roberts, best right-hander of the feeble fourth-place Phillies, beat big Don Newcombe, 3-2, and became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

They stood and watched the police parachute-drop demonstration, U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy and his two sons, Clinton, 14, and Daniel, 9. Then handsome Jack Peurifoy and the boys got into his robin's-egg-blue Ford Thunderbird and headed back to the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin, 85 miles southwest of Bangkok, for lunch. It was a holiday outing, a lark for the boys, and just the occasion for Peurifoy to open up with his prized Thunderbird. He gunned it up to 70 m.p.h. and left his four-jeep police escort behind. They were used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Smiling Jack | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...allowed $1.000 Cadillacs on were "any car selling that at discounts in Cleveland, Dallas and Miami. As a result, the National Automobile Dealers Association does not believe that dealers can even maintain the low (3%) profit margin on sales that they averaged for the first quarter. Said H. W. Robin son, general manager of Atlanta's Harry Sommers Inc. (Chrysler): "I haven't seen any profits for so long that I wouldn't know what they look like. All we are doing is working for the factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Many Cars? | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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