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...Long Voyage Home. In Leavenworth. Kans., a nightclub offered free wrecker service to its motorist patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...chief wrecker was slim, 165-lb. Halfback Charlie ("Choo Choo") Justice. He ran like a jack rabbit, fast and zigzaggy. Against Texas, Choo Choo scored two touchdowns, threw passes for two more, modestly demurred when called upon to score another. "I've had my flurry," he said in the huddle. "Give somebody else a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Jack Rabbit of Chapel Hill | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...studio (RKO) hastened to make hay. Pleasantly amazed at the rash of public sympathy and sentimentality over Mitchum's trouble, the studio planned an immediate release of Bob's latest movie (Rachel and the Stranger, co-starring Loretta Young, and presenting Mitchum as a frontier home-wrecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Break, Break, Break. In Saginaw Bay, Mich., John Sanborn, out for some ice fishing, stood by helplessly as 1) his car fell through the ice; 2) a wrecker sent to the rescue fell through the ice; 3) a curious pilot landed his plane, which fell through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...banks "waiting for the wrecker." Though it has been rumored for some time that she would be before long, she is apparently reluctant to give up just yet. I saw her go by (downstream) yesterday with a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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