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...Ross grabbed his [Gray's] arm. . . . I . . . tried to get the gun. We struggled around . . . but I got my finger on the trigger and pulled it. . . . I knew Gray was hurt. He was calling to me to give him a gun so he could kill himself. Ross wasn't making a sound. . . . I went back to the car for some blankets. I put one under Gray. Then I tied two others around Ross. . . . I couldn't tell whether his skull was fractured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mercy Kidnapper | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...fast, comprehensive notation of a fast, comprehensive day's work-Brooklyn's 1934 $500,000 armored-car robbery. Poet Brynes's first published book reveals him as an able handler of 1) melodramatic narrative, 2) a sawed-off vernacular with a hot business-end, cool trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arizona Hemingway | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

However, the Spanish Leftist Government, needing good trigger men, offered Mr. Sikorski haven in Barcelona, and French gendarmes escorted him to the international bridge to Puigcerda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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