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...that bayonet five times that day," he recalled later. "You're only supposed to do it a few times a week." At any rate, when he tried to swallow that bayonet, almost a foot of it slipped down all right and then it stuck. The crowd began to titter and Andy panicked. Instead of pulling the bayonet out and starting again, he tried to force it. Though it hurt a bit, he got through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Fire & Sword | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller also grinds out five other Enquirer features: a tearjerker called "Millerdramas," a trade-talky TV column bylined John Jay, "Inside Politics" by James Miljae, "Hollywood Keyhole" by Gene Carter, and a second titter-tattle column over the byline of John Rellim (a rear-view Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Keyhole Kid | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...didn't know for certain what it was, but we maintained a bold face and returned quicklike, "Too much trouble." He seemed slightly disconcerted, but continued pluckily, "As a newspaperman," (we smirked nervously) "you must be sensitive to the things that other people wear." We began to titter uncontrollably but he went on: "What are the pace-setters wearing...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The New Shoe | 11/20/1956 | See Source »

...touch of pathos which gives the comedy depth. Roddy McDowall has a smaller role as Will's whining and utterly realistic buddy, but he manages it neatly. Lastly, Howard Freeman and Royal Beal create convincing characters out of the two red-faced generals, who stomp and fume and titter falsely before exploding...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: No Time for Sergeants | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...magazine. A sleek-haired, gruff-talking showoff, Bachelor Harrison drives a white Cadillac, making the rounds of New York City nightclubs "wherever romance beckons me." Manhattan-born, Harrison started out in publishing after working as a writer for movie trade papers, bringing out such magazines as Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter and Flirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success in the Sewer | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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