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...ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony Ducks keeps no bank accounts, buys no property in his own name, often meets his confederates at 5 a.m. (to avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into his shop once every couple of weeks and glare at the employees. In 1941, after he had dodged the draft by claiming that he was the sole support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Hot Cargo | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...break for visitors), came out at night for dinner (25 to 35 live crayfish, 200 to 300 worms, one frog, several scrambled eggs, add mud and stir). But beyond that, instead of just waddling about his own business, Cecil began to court Penelope. He grabbed her flat tail in his duckbilled, toothless mouth, and held on for dear life while Penelope dragged him around the pool in slow circles. At times Cecil would let go and roll over and over in the water. But Penelope, who after all weighs two pounds to Cecil's four, did not see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: End of the Affair | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Hank Aaron is a predictable quantity-he gets his quota of base hits no matter what happens to the Braves. In last week's key series, he peered at the Phillies' pitchers with sleepy eyes, the end of his bat twitching ominously like the tail of a prowling panther. He seemed almost to be napping as the ball started toward him, but at the last instant he snapped his powerful wrists and the bat whistled in a perfectly coordinated arc. When he was through swinging against the Phils, Aaron had smashed out six hits in seven tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wrist-Hitter | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...what parts will develop into the head, wings or legs. By damaging the proper cells with a hair-thin beam of X rays, he can make the chick into a Cyclops. He can prevent wings from growing, or he can make the legs fuse together into a kind of tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monster Maker | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Little Girl, Big Voice | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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