Johnny Ace Auditorium in Houston, Texas, on Christmas Day 1954. During a break between sets, he was playing with a .32-caliber revolver. Members of his band said he did this often, sometimes shooting at roadside signs from their car. It was widely reported that Ace killed himself playing Russian roulette. However, Big Mama Thornton's bass player, Curtis Tillman, who witnessed the event, said, "I will tell you exactly what happened! Johnny Ace had been drinking and he had this little pistol he was waving around the table and someone said ‘Be careful with that thing…’ and he said ‘It’s okay! Gun’s not
Alpha Centauri or Die! really, though Brackett is never unreadable, and I did enjoy the book." Alpha Centauri or Die! Alpha Centauri or Die! is a science fiction novel by American writer Leigh Brackett. The novel is a fixup of two earlier short stories, "The Ark of Mars" (first published in the September 1953 issue of "Planet Stories") and "Teleportress of Alpha C" (first published in the Winter 1954-1955 "Planet Stories"). Its first book publication was as half of Ace Double F-187 with "Legend of Lost Earth" by G. McDonald Wallis. In Brackett's future solar system, manned interstellar flight is forbidden with only the