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...Full-Time Cops. Their crime was to steal eight .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers from an Army shipment. Not long after that came the murder of Arnold Schuster, 24, an good citizen who happened to recognize Bank Robber Wil lie Sutton and put the police on his trail (TIME, March 17, 1952). Schuster, it turned out, had been shot with one of the stolen revolvers...
...between the trunk and the rear seat and pushed the key up into it. Miller took it, and triumphantly opened the trunk door. As she backed out, he seized one of her wrists and whirled her around. Mrs. Krone-who had found her husband's 22-caliber Smith & Wesson target pistol and a box of cartridges in the trunk, and had carefully slipped six cartridges into the cylinder during the wild ride-fired three times. One bullet missed. One hit her attacker in the hip. One passed directly through his heart. He staggered, gasped and dropped dead...
...with Sten guns slung on their backs. The flames of a big log fire (it gets cold up here at night) flickered on reckless, sun-wrinkled faces. A pretty woman threw open her white fur coat; round her slim waist was a leather cartridge belt and a bolstered Smith & Wesson...
...Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes. A lot of gay, enthusiastic young people labor...
Destination Moon uses expert technical tricks to picture the oddities of travel beyond the earth's atmosphere and gravity Its four lunar explorers-a physicist (Warner Anderson), an industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions...