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...morning last week Orlovsky left about 7 a. m., Penn at his usual hour. Across the street, a blue sedan containing two men, which had been waiting about an hour, made a U-turn, drew up beside him as he waddled along the sidewalk. Out stepped a man with a pistol and the morning quiet of the street was shattered by six explosions. Penn, the left side of his body torn up by five slugs, fell to the pavement screaming, "Get me a doctor! Get me a doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Error | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

First Day. In a big, maroon, convertible sedan with the top down and the bullet-proof windows up, the King & Queen, having greeted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and notables at the dockside, were whisked up the winding road from Wolfe's Cove to the old city over a circuitous route past battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...filled St. Peter's Square, craned necks toward the Arch of Bells. Suddenly the cheers exploded. Through the Arch of Bells into the square came Pope Pius XII, in gold-embroidered cape, followed by a brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lateran Possessed | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...hours later, the new black Buick sedan of Edward Schneider was found parked in the middle of Fairfax Bridge across the Missouri River. In it were records of Pendergast companies and two suicide notes to Schneider relatives. In dust on the bridge railing were two hand marks and a heel print, such as a man might make in climbing over to end it all. Two miles downstream, Schneider's grey hat floated inshore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vanishing Henchman | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...cylinder, air-cooled engine which gives it a high speed of 50 miles an hour, and runs 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Two quarts of oil fill its crankcase, four gallons of gas its fuel tank. At $325 for the coupe, $25 more for the sedan, it will undersell by $62 the only other U. S. midget on the automotive market, the American Bantam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Little Fellow | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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