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...makes them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Two Kinds of Tests? (Contd.) | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Jennie, "fresh and sparkling as a rosebud," her "lovely petals protected by a thorn." With a slight tightening of the lips (and Kissel's shotgun), she can down eight brace of prairie plover in seven shots (five doubles and two triples). Has a "neat, graceful competence" in scalping Indians. Fond of husbands, but is apt to have them shot out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold Rush Huck Finn | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting. He was so gruff with newsmen who came out to see him ("It's really something when you have to make this a news event to write about") that they wrote waspishly of his carelessness with his 20-gauge shotgun. A welltrained man with small arms, he gestured with his piece without seeming to bother about where it pointed, sat in the hunting car with his hand over its muzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Baffling Week | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Household Goods. In Milwaukee, a for-sale ad in the Journal read: "Washer; wringer; new encyclopedia; shotgun; wedding dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...quality, abetted by some light and witty Allison solo flights on the piano. Among the most successful is a swinging, wryly humorous ballad about a misunderstood wife-slayer at "the Parchman Farm" who passes his time "puttin' that cotton in a 'leven foot sack/With a 12-gauge shotgun at [his] back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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