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...Kaufman went back to the bench to sentence sullen Morton Sobell, because of his "lesser degree of implication," to 30 years. Next day, Judge Kaufman sentenced David Greenglass, the ex-Army sergeant who had fed atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs and whose testimony had convicted his sister and brother-in-law, to a milder 15 years because of his help to the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: Worse Than Murder | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Ginger is the only witness to the murder, and almost the only one in town who might dare to testify against the high-riding Klan. But when she meets her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) for the first time, she recognizes him as one of the murdering Klansmen. Buffeted by her sister's pleading, the Klan's threats and pressure from a Klan-busting prosecutor (Ronald Reagan), she must decide whether to join or break the town's scared conspiracy of silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...letter had a more personal side. Last year Professor Schlauch's younger sister Helen and Helen's Polish-born husband, a mathematician at the University of Toronto, sold their house in Canada and moved to Warsaw. Her brother-in-law told Margaret last summer that she, too, could have "some kind of post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Journey for Margaret | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

After the Ball Was Over. Purcell denied everything. But it soon became obvious that if he was telling the truth, he had done more with his $4,150 annual wage than any fireman in history. Records showed that he had helped finance a Flushing bar & grill for his brother-in-law. There were definite indications that he had been involved in promoting a housing project, a six-day bicycle race, and a scheme to sell 40,000 Christmas trees to firemen and their relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Smoke & Mire | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Died. Herbert Marcus, 72, co-founder (in 1907, with his sister and brother-in-law) of Dallas' mirrored, perfumed, high-styled specialty store, Neiman-Marcus; of a heart attack; in Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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