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...expanded 19 months ago from 30 to 162 men. The recruits were seasoned soldiers; of the present force, 37 temporarily dropped out of the military to come to Laos and the rest were drawn from the retired list. Under their flapping shirts is more than one gung-ho tattoo, such as "3rd Division Forever." At the top is Heintges, Coblenz-born son of a former German officer, and a 1936 graduate of West Point who rose rapidly through the infantry officer ranks during heavy fighting in Italy and France during World War II. After the war he was made chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sports-Shirt Soldiers | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...misleads and deceives by many tricks, and takes wayfarers out of the way. Thus, he calls at a distance by beating a tattoo on his swollen abdomen. The noise, as I have heard it, is not unlike the muffled roar of the waterfall near by." Though painted in Japan, La Farge's deep purple glade reflects a typically American feeling for nature as something both seductive and fearful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Romantics at Milwaukee | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Under the hoop, they beat a tattoo on him with elbow and hip. Last week Chamberlain had to take two games off for the extraction of two teeth jammed back by an elbow. Says Warrior Coach Neil Johnston: "They're getting away with murder against Wilt. It would help if Wilt would belt a few. but he's only fought back a couple of times when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Man, What Now? | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...chosen his Trojan locale with malice afore-thought. He seems to delight in slipping in anachronistic elements, such as references to the "middle class." Entering the spirit of the thing, director John Beck appears to have added a few of his own: one bare-chested sailor sports a tattoo reading "Mother" --but in Greek, of course...

Author: By Carl I. Gable jr., | Title: Tiger at the Gates | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

Perma-Shave. In Columbus, an Ohio penitentiary barber broke regulations by allowing New Prisoner Tom Campbell to keep his mustache-a black, neatly sketched tattoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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