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...mothers concluded: "The gun, the gat, the rod, the six-shooter is the prime motivator of most children's TV programs. Life ... is cheaper than a cigarette butt in a gutter. Not one episode, not one character, not one emotion did we see evoked that the children might emulate to their gain." Their recommendation: "If we had our way, we would make it compulsory for every TV official to sit down and take four hours of the punishment we have just taken, but every week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gun, Gat & Rod | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...flashy diamond ring ("I wish I was half as smart now as I thought I was then"). He drank champagne in San Francisco, broke up a light opera performance in Butte, Mont., wore boots and spurs in hotel dining rooms, and fired his six-shooter on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...their paces. Using .22 caliber pistols-because they are easy to shoot and ammunition is cheap-the squad practices pumping bull's-eyes into a man-sized silhouette at 25 meters. The problem: learning to hit the mark in the three-second interval that the target faces the shooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pentathletes | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Glamor in Tweed. The tournament glamor girl was Cuban-born Carola Mandel, 31, wife of wealthy Chicago Department Store Owner Leon Mandel. A skeet shooter for only three years, steady-nerved Mrs. Mandel is already right up in the big time, last month won the Open High-Over-All title at Chicago, outshooting some veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Bang in Dallas | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...From the Norwegian word skytte (shooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Bang in Dallas | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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