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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, for nightmarish minutes, he stalked the street like a murderous mechanical man. He shot at passing motorists, killed three people, wounded two more. He saw a two-year-old boy in a window, aimed, fired, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Psycho?" Outside a policeman lobbed a tear-gas bomb through a window. The choking fumes drove Unruh downstairs. In a few minutes he opened the back door and came out, hands high, apparently completely unconcerned. A cop scrambled forward, handcuffed him. As he was hurried off, to be questioned by police and psychiatrists, a harried and sweating cop snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed him as "one of the most pronounced artistic personalities in London," found in him "the magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scottie's World | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Interruption. In Seattle, Lloyd A. Mclsaac explained that he was just on his way to a repair shop when police arrested him for operating a car with defective brakes, headlights, window glass, horn, muffler and tires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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