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...along with him, he'd take me out in the desert and bury me." The police told him to go along with Bailey. They then staked out the Firestone house, even went so far as to rent for Skalla a getaway car that he had been assigned to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Missing the Cue | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...human being." In a war in which the kindly-looking peasant often turns out to be a gun-toting guerrilla, that can be a tall order. Snapped a marine private: "We try to help these goddam people and you know what they do? They send in their kids to steal our grenades and ammunition and use them to kill us. The hell with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...player, Branch Rickey's contribution to baseball is best forgotten. A no-hit, no-field catcher, he bounced briefly around the majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Mahatma | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Comic.Peter Sellers took a few shots of Actor Peter OToole, 32, mugging around with the gloves on in Paris, where O'Toole was filming How to Steal a Million Dollars and Live Happily Ever After. Peter was still admiring that picture of himself a few weeks later when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 10, 1965 | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...seven minutes into the frame, second-line right wing Bob Fredo came up with a steal of his own. He took the puck down the right side and flipped it past a suddenly empty-handed Thornton from about eight feet. The score was none too beautiful, but for Harvard at that moment, there was nothing prettier than the bright red light behind the cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Squad Mushes Huskies, 3-1 | 12/9/1965 | See Source »

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