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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coogan's Bluff, 14-year-old Robert Peebles had climbed onto the roof of his dirty yellow apartment house, raised his .45 pistol and fired it, for the fun of it, into the air. His bullet looped swiftly over the Polo Grounds, sped toward Seat 3, Row C, Section 42. Just as Barney Doyle, his score card in hand, turned to speak to young Otto Flaig, the bullet smashed into Doyle's left temple, sank into his brain and stayed there. Doyle, suddenly bleeding, slumped forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Seat 3, Row C | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...Division, will soon be en route to the Far East from San Diego. Craig, who will lead the Marine ground units last week placed under MacArthur's command, served ably in the Bougainville, Guam and Marianas campaigns during World War II, was decorated for capturing Mount Suribachi, the "roof of Iwo Jima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cast of Characters | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof, clattered into the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Reunion of Hearts | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Super-Selling. The houses in Levittown, which sell for a uniform price of $7,990, cannot be mistaken for castles. Each has a sharp-angled roof and a picture window, radiant heating in the floor, 12-by-16 ft. living room, bath, kitchen, two bedrooms on the first floor, and an "expansion attic" which can be converted into two more bedrooms and bath. The kitchen has a refrigerator, stove and Bendix washer; the living room a fireplace and a built-in Admiral television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Up from the Potato Fields | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Superintendent. In Memphis, a man standing precariously on the roof of an eleven-story hotel told the two policemen who rushed up to prevent him from jumping that he was only watching a construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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