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Dick Shaughnessy is known as bit of a miracle. Nine months after he shouldered his first shotgun, he smashed 313 consecutive birds in recognized skeet tournaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming in Memphis and environs. One night last week Bob Berryman chased John Phillips into a Memphis cafe, felled him with three shotgun charges and four bullets from a snub-nosed Colt. "It was over the night clubs down in Mississippi." moaned dying John Phillips. Holy Joe's policemen arrested Bob Berryman, charged him with murder. There was still life in Memphis, and the wages thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Memphis Blues | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...turned down an offer of a .32-calibre revolver from John Bad, later found it bona fide, the seller's full name being Badinovac. One man has been trying unsuccessfully to get $25 for six pairs of breeding bullfrogs and several hundred pollywogs. Another wants to trade a shotgun for a trailer. Biggest item the program has ever tried to sell was half-interest in a Weaverville, Calif. gold mine; price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bargains By Air | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...undress, Percy Philip stripped to his under wear while soldiers inspected the soles of his boots, felt the lining of his tunic. Then a space was cleared beside the train. While a messenger went to look for gendarmes, two soldiers with cocked rifles, an old peasant with a shotgun made ready to execute him on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: They Were There | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Near Ottawa, Ill., William Jackson, 14, thrilled by a radio crime story, put a charge of buckshot into his grandma, smashed her head with the shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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