Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoot!" At 8:45 in the morning, six miles northeast of the town of Van Wert, West brought the big haulaway rig jolting and hissing to a stop. There was a police car across the highway. Van Wert County's grizzled Sheriff F. Roy Shaffer called: "You got any passengers in back?" West said: "None that I know...
...Gatow Airport, in the British sector of Berlin, pilots had fun with a British WAAF operator known as Squeaky Mary. Whenever she told a pilot his course in her high-pitched voice, he answered in an equally squeaky imitation. Squeaky Mary called the U.S. airport. An American answered briskly: "Shoot, Luke, you're faded." Mary was momentarily nonplussed. After giving her message, she explained: "You see, it's been so long since I've had close contact with Americans-it's good to be at it again...
Only the most skillfully concealed jewelry, fountain pens, watches or spectacles will escape pilfering from these ruffians. If they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
After the Supermanic. British newsreels will have access to 50 reels of black & white which Rank will shoot alongside the color. Price: ?2,000 per company, plus the loan of some cameramen. U.S. newsreels, as usual, will get their coverage by swapping equal footage on other subjects. British Movietonews executives now feel: "It could be worse. We're satisfied we'll get a fair break." British Paramount still feels bitterly against the Olympic Association for peddling an exclusive in the first place, but thinks Rank's arrangements are "very adequate." The Association, with 25% of its costs...
...Good Old Days. In time, as his fame spread, he spoke to wide-eyed audiences from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles. As he became a showman, the Service sagas became Mike's own: he had actually witnessed the shooting of Dan. Last week, Klondike Mike, white-haired, but still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember...