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...sunny street outside, Policeman Edmund Noonan was directing traffic, half a block from the bank truck. He noticed a black Buick sedan beside it and strolled down the street to call a warning against double parking. As he approached, the car started up, ripped past him, screeched around the corner and was gone. The cop took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Cup of Coffee | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Ellis struck first at midnight. He drove his sedan to the George Mensinger ranch near Merriman on the Niobrara River, got out, walked to the house and hammered on the door. When Mensinger opened it, Ellis killed him with a shotgun blast, pumped out three more shots and then circled around to a kitchen window. Mensinger's 24-year-old wife was at the telephone, baby cradled in one arm, sending an alarm over the party line. Ellis fired again, killed her and wounded the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coyote Hunt | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Weathered In. In Reno, when his sedan stalled in a snowdrift, Robert Gibbs hopped out, trampled the hood down to the engine, ripped off the ventilator flaps, pulled off the door handles, smashed all the windows, walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Holy Man Brahmachari toured Nehru's constituency in a 1931 Dodge sedan, accompanied by a troupe of Hindu singers. To the chanting of Hindu psalms, he danced on the platform, rhythmically tapping a pair of small brass cymbals. A disciple read from a pamphlet he had written. Brahmachari on U.S. divorce: "I have heard that in America . . . women marry and divorce as many as three husbands a day, and there are some women who have had several hundred spouses each." On U.S. marriage: "An Indian student, visiting an American cemetery, found a young woman seated by the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Cymbals & Symbols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...last week Remedies stopped his shiny sedan at a busy downtown Havana intersection and told his chauffeur to wait. Traffic Policeman Carlos Gutierrez presently walked over and handed the chauffeur a parking ticket. Returning, Remedies leaped at the cop, grabbed him by the shirt and shook him. "You can't do that to me," he snarled. "I am Representative Benito Remedies and I am going to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Immunity Ended | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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