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...McGoon's Ride

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Fellow airmen called him "Earthquake McGoon"-the burly, black-browed man with the big laugh and the outspoken contempt for the quiet life. Earthquake was born to trouble and hairbreadth escapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Earthquake's War | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...Keener Than Most Persons (The Leaky Refrigerator in the Efficiency Apartment Murder Clue), Jack Headstrong, the All-American American (now working on an interplanetary motorcycle), and Mary Backstage, Noble Wife ("There's usually an amnesia case or a brain operation going on"). Another character, played by Ray: Mary McGoon, a composite of all women commentators and home helpers (her cure for a cold: goosefat in an Argyle sock, hung around the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spoolers | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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