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...wrote a note to the world. "My four kidnappers are probably the only people on earth who don't consider me an utter fool. You have your death penalty now - so - please give them a chance." Then she raised an automatic pistol to her head and pulled the trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Death Penalty | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Billy Hull," in the local estimate, "was as rough as a porcupine." Trigger-tempered, 140-lb. little Billy had a friend, Alec Smith; two enemies, Brothers Jim & Dave Stepp. One day Alec Smith and Billy Hull were at the mountain farmhouse of a neighbor named Cindy Lovelace when the Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak allowed that he might turn out something new in the genre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...beauties ballyhoo a multitude of little things: soft front-seat edges for comfort, better insulation against road-rumble, trigger-release parking brakes, direction signals and warning signals for low gas & oil, hot motor, faulty ignition, etc. Pointing up comfort, safety, economy, new models are generally longer, lower, wider, roomier, with increased visibility and lots more chromium. Steering column gearshift relegates to the archives the old wobble-stick. Running boards are mostly optional. Air-conditioned heaters are highly favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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