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...because he "just wanted a fighter to cover up his dope racket." The officials called Dixon's last fight a draw, but, he says, "the way I felt afterwards, I didn't really feel like going into the ring again." His boxing career ended, and with a one-string tin-can bass, he began his career as a performer. Later, a big-time gambler bought him his first upright bass, and he started performing at Martin...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Willie Dixon's Blues Alive in White World | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

...male jury last week deliberated for 19 hours, finally returned a verdict of second-degree murder against Manhattan tin-can Manufacturer Mark Fein, 32, in the fatal shooting of his bookie (TIME, Nov. 20). The crime is punishable by 20 years to life. Second-degree murder is defined as killing in the heat of anger, without premeditation. The definition did not necessarily fit the circumstances of the Fein case, but the jury was not about to send a man to the chair on the say-so of the chief witness, Gloria Kendal, described by a defense attorney as "this procuress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Matter of Degree | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...Fein had no weakness for television, he had a couple of others to make up for it. As president of his father's thriving tin-can and cardboard-box business, he seemed to have everything he needed-the best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Madam's Mark | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...young men of the 2,200-ton U.S. destroyer Maddox, patrol duty in Tonkin seemed as ho-hum and hum drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Action in Tonkin Gulf | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...member Soviet diplomatic entourage to the U.S. is presently packed like caviar into a tin-can embassy-chancery on 16th Street in Washington. The Russians want out-and they propose to move to a 15-acre estate called Bonnie Brae in Chevy Chase, a residential area on the Maryland-District of Columbia line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Then Again, Maybe Nyet | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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