Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night when his parents went to bed he got up from his bed, took his shotgun, loaded it and went quietly into their bedroom. His mother and father were sleeping he took aim shot his father first his mother screamed he shot...
Last week police announced that the quiet boy was in the Hennepin County Jail. The night after he wrote his theme, he had gone quietly into his parents' bedroom, wounded both with two blasts from a shotgun. Then he drove off in the family car 80 miles out of town until his conscience caught up with him, and he gave himself...
...legal limit on single ownership. Boston's WCRB, which pioneered in stereophonic sound, is offering a record 128 hours of concert music a week, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s four new "FM only" outlets are making a pitch to advertisers who prefer "a rifle shot to a shotgun blast." Says Westinghouse President Donald McGannon: "FM is at last on the march, and that day may not be too far distant when our country will have three separate major media for broadcast entertainment and advertising: TV, AM radio and FM radio...
...late afternoon, and Kentucky's sports-loving Democratic Governor Albert Benjamin (Happy) Chandler had on his hunting clothes and was carrying a shotgun in the Ballard County Waterfowl Refuge. But was Happy actually hunting? Not a bit of it. Rather, as the story came to be told, he was just sort of standing around bird-watching with Wildlife Commissioner Earl Wallace and a couple of refuge employees. Then suddenly a crippled goose lurched across the horizon, and Happy, with nothing but euthanasian motives, blazed away. He and his companions were promptly collared for hunting afterhours by Game Warden Kendall...
...compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have hydrophobia"). One apocryphal story has it that on one pigeon shoot he accidentally pinked a member of the Teachers College Board of Illinois...