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...hospital with his arm braced in a traction apparatus, a staggering total of $126,900 was offered ($100,000 of it by the U.A.W.) for the arrest and conviction of the gunman. Last week every cop, private dick, stool pigeori and neighborhood snoop in Detroit was working overtime, and half the population seemed to have turned amateur detective. But at week's end the assassin was still at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Who Shot Walter? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Peng Teh-huai attacked his schoolmaster with a stool. Three years later, young Peng deliberately kicked over his grandmother's opium, which was cooking on the stove, and was banished from the family. Last week, at 48, Peng Teh-huai, as the second ranking general of Communist China, was still going strong. He was basking in kudos from the Communist Central Committee for the "brilliant victory" he had scored over a Nationalist force at Ichuan, 60 miles southeast of Yenan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tears for the Valiant | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Chicago had its noisiest night since the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre. It began when a blue-jawed ex-convict named Tom Daley marched into a South Side garage with two pals and killed an old friend who had turned stool pigeon. The trio then loaded four witnesses into a car. Daley broke the monotony of a long drive along icy roads by shooting them and shoving them out. When the last target was gone he went calmly to bed. The cops woke him up and mowed him down. too. The score: four dead, two wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel in Oneida, N. Y., and perhaps not even them, and that he doesn't speak for everyone in America. There were too many irresponsible fools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: America, Russia Puzzle Czechs Equally | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

After I paid the ransom, I propelled Sedgwick to a rude stool by the fireplace and forced a few drops of Dr. Seagram's elixir through his clenched teeth. He gargled hysterically, hiccoughed once, and whispered plaintively, "Christmas shopping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracy's Protegee Mmbls to Sdgwck On Holiday Issue | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

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