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...were a titanic struggle between conflicting principles, what follows turns out to be a tussle between neurotic pinheads. At one point. Cooper dynamites several blocks worth of a housing project to assert his artistic integrity. Blowing hot & cold on Cooper's ambitions, Massey finally puts a bullet through his own head after commissioning Cooper to build the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Eddie yelled, "What in the world goes on here?" Then Ruth shot him. The bullet tore through his right lung, stopped near his spine. Eddie rolled onto his back on the carpet, looked up with a shocked smile and whispered: "Baby, what did you do that for?" Ruth knelt and held his hand. "You like this, don't you," Eddie murmured. Ruth called the telephone operator and said she had shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Silly Honey | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Hearth & Home. In Manhattan, Mrs. Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...crowded room. Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill, a husky, 28-year-old Negro, was drunk, but the sheriff got handcuffs on him, and began to question witnesses. Suddenly, the sheriff felt his pistol pulled from the holster, turned to find Picky Pie aiming at his head. Hatcher ducked and the bullet went into the ceiling. In the scuffle, the sheriff's pistol got lost. The sheriff took his prisoner back to town and put him in a cell with another Negro in the jail on the second floor of the sheriff's house. Then he went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Death of Picky Pie | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Rifles & Dynamite. As she was talking, a miner aimed a gun at her from a window outside. Her husband rushed to protect her; a bullet stopped him. Other miners fired; Tom O'Connor got 42 bullets in his body, was battered to a pulp with iron bars. U.S. Engineer Albert Krefting was also killed; Mrs. O'Connor was badly mauled before she escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: 20th Century Riot | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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