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...hooliganism. One band of hoodlums appeared on the lawn of a two-family Negro house, planted another cross and set it ablaze. Then they moved on to the home of Negro Dentist James C. Wallace Jr. and blasted away at his house with a shotgun. The next night, a bullet zinged through a window of Dentist W. A. Fingal's house. About the same time, a dynamite bomb exploded in Negro Physician Urbane F. Bass's backyard. Another bomb was tossed in front of the tire shop belonging to Vice President Henry Dyson of the local chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What's Natural in Cairo | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Went home and put a bullet through his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ROBINSON SAMPLER | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Erskine's demand: the Egyptian police must hand over their weapons and evacuate the Canal Zone. Otherwise, warned the British commander, Ismailia's police headquarters would be "destroyed by force." Serag el Din turned the ultimatum down cold and ordered his policemen to "resist to the last bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Close To War | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Major Frank North of the Pawnee scouts. Little did the poor Indian know that in biting the. dust he was launching a literary fad, and that it would change the lives of half the boys in the civilized world. For hot on the heels of North's bullet rode Ned Buntline, the famed dime novelist, all agog to plump Tall Bull's slayer into one of his thrillers. North, a simple soldier, refused to be blown up into a "paperback hero." "If you want a man to fill that bill," he told Buntline, "he's over there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buffalo Bill's Mentor | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...happy pilot (Wendel Corey) and a slap-happy sergeant (Phil Harris), these fellows really have themselves a ball. Why, on their very first flight they take the plane up to high altitude, against orders, and the resulting pressure blows one of the gunners out of the plane like a bullet...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Wild Blue Yonder | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

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