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...theory is that the two officers who were killed were shot accidentally by fellow cops. More likely, once the fighting started some of Upton's men grabbed guns from the police, then turned the weapons on them. Both dead policemen, Deputy Ralph Hancock and Deputy DeWayne Wilder, were shot with police guns; so were Upton and Thomas Davis, who were also killed. Of the 31 injured, 14 were police. Twelve blacks were also hurt, several by angry, club-wielding police searching for Upton's friends-all but three of whom have been captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Battle in Baton Rouge | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Eliot begged him for an autographed picture. Thornton Wilder found him sequestered in Finnegans Wake.* The first man on the moon mimicked his fluid slouch. Clearly, Groucho Marx is a man of parts, and eight of those parts are preserved in this collection of uncritical, oversized photographs and classic film routines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Cavorters | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...being picaresque-a wilder statement will be hard to find. Would a rogue have given up power, position and hard-won laurels to fight in the jungles of Bolivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1971 | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

David Merrick will weigh in with Nobody's Perfect, an adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie, Some Like It Hot, in which Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe costarred. Elaine Joyce will play the Monroe part and Bobby Morse will fill the Lemmon role. Jule Styne supplies the music, Bob Merrill the lyrics, and Gower Champion will direct. The team that put together Stop the World -I Want to Get Off, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, will be back with another marquee-macerating title, It's a Funny Old World We Live In, but the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Fabulous Invalid's New Symptoms | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

Says Yvonne Skinner, a former University of Chicago English major who studied with Thornton Wilder and is herself a gifted writer: "We had tremendous arguments about Walden Two. I wouldn't like it; I just like change and privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell? | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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