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...Welsh mother always said that with problem boys up to the age of 50, you either wipe their noses or whack their backsides. Would suggest the latter, with a No. 6 shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...killed his wicked old father. Then father appears-and Christy Mahon, the golden-tongued playboy of the western world, crumples into a cringing figure of contempt before all his fine new friends. But whisht! Christy-boy gets himself up, chases his old da outside, and with a whack of a loy, lays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Such Talk | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Some people call it hockey, but its real name is intimidation. Whack, slam, hook and trip-these are the tools of the trade, and nobody employs them more ruthlessly and recklessly than Detroit's Gordie Howe, 34, a veteran of 17 years and quite possibly the most combative player who ever climbed onto a rink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bashful Basher | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Late one night, off McPherson Avenue in St. Louis, a man with sports shirttails at half-mast, strolled casually through a dark alley. He was a perfect target for a mugger. A tall hoodlum with a heavy club appeared, and with one whack, sent the man reeling. As the victim struggled to his knees, the assailant swung back to strike again, stopped when he saw the fallen man draw a revolver. "I'm a policeman!" cried the victim. "Drop that club!" The mugger stared for a moment in astonishment, then turned and ran. The cop, Otto Hirsch, fired once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Against the Trend | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...Spain. Bunuel is an anarchist, but he is also the most famous Spanish moviemaker, so Franco invited him to come home after 25 years in exile and to shoot a picture with government funds. Bunuel accepted the offer, shot Viridiana. But before Franco's censors could take a whack at it, he smuggled the film out of the country. Shown at the Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orare Est La bora re? | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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