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Elsewhere the authorities found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Arsenal of Terror | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Once upon a time there were 13 clocks that wouldn't run. A cold, aggressive Duke had killed time seven years before, wiped his bloody blade upon his beard, and left time lying there on the cold stones of Coffin Castle, bleeding hours & minutes, while he hurried off in search of a kitten to tear apart or a handsome young prince to feed to his geese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Please Yourself | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...lower teeth" and muttered disconsolately: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." A little while later there was a smell of old unopened rooms; then there was a sound of rabbits screaming; then there was a gleep; and then there wasn't any Duke in Coffin Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Please Yourself | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Hint. In Auburn, Me., Mrs. Grace Pipe, asking for divorce, stated that her husband made a coffin for her, kept it handy in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...patriots. Late in 1919 independence leaders from Korea and from Korean communities in exile gathered in Shanghai. Rhee, who feared that Chinese police might collar him to earn the $300,000 price placed by the Japanese on his head, was smuggled into Shanghai's International Settlement in a coffin. There he helped establish the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, became its first President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father of His Country? | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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