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...William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that he thought the white lettering on the bus was deer's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Killing Season | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...however, he has substituted double-features in greater numbers for his ideal programs. Atypical weekly bill at the U.T. includes two separate show, usually double features, of three days' duration each, Review Day on Wednesday, and a Children's Movie at at 10 A.M. Saturday morning (Roy Rogers and Trigger in "Song of Arizona," and Chapter 13 of "Chick Carter, Detective" are featured this week). Because of booking arrangements, most of the U.T.'s pictures reach its screen 28 or more days after concluding their run at the Met or other downtown Boston theatres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

...know, after you have looked down a gun barrel for several years, you become impervious to the threat. You finally get to thinking that perhaps the easiest solution is to let the other fellow pull the trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Go Ahead & Shoot | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...will have almost everything. Items: streamlined baby strollers; aluminum jeeps and station wagons; helicopters; stuffed spaniels that glow in the dark; toy sinks with running water; model kits to make prefabricated houses; dump trucks; and an electrical gun that throws pictures on the wall with each pull of the trigger. For the first time in six years, Germany will ship some $250,000 worth of music boxes, harmonicas, mohair deers, whiz-bang racing cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Whee! | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...water. (The secret: a reaction between the water and chemicals inside the bird.) ¶ The Skweez-Me Boxers, a couple of gangling woodenheads who fight and flop in their little wooden ring through manipulation of the base. ¶ A dart game in which plastic bombs are dropped when trigger releases in model planes are hit. ¶ A wind-up car that turns corners, reverses, and parks itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Whee! | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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