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...night last week prosperous Nino Cottone, 52, returning home late, gently backed his little Fiat station wagon into the drive of his summer villa. He had just locked the car when he was bowled along the driveway by two streams of machine-gun bullets. As his family and friends poured out of their houses, Nino painfully lifted up his bullet-ridden body and stumbled to the threshold of his villa, where, leaning against the door, he died on his feet as a good Sicilian should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Sicilian Blood | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Estate Wagon. In Newark, attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...first heat of the Hambletonian at Goshen's Good Time Park, and finished eleventh. But in the next two tours of the track, The Intruder waltzed home from far back to take the $100,604 stake. Next day the Hambletonian Society announced that it was moving the "Wagon Horse" classic to the Du Quoin, Ill. State Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...News Fits ... In Chillicothe, Mo., while publicizing an auto safety inspection campaign, the daily Constitution-Tribune sent its office station wagon through the check line, got back a report: no emergency brake, faulty muffler, dim signal lights, missing taillight. badly adjusted foot brakes, two broken windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Horse Scents. In Cologne, Germany, the famed "4711" eau de cologne company obtained a court injunction to force Manure Collector Karl Kolsch to remove his telephone number-4711-which he had painted in 20-in.-high numerals across both sides of his horse-drawn fertilizer wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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