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...week's end, Chicago was beginning to get on to this business of Bill's split personality. The drugstore D.A.s declared that Bill Heirens was either nuts, or the coldest murderer in the city's murder-studded history-and the hell with this George routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bill & George | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...roof of the world, last week came to an inglorious end. It was licked by something few had foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: Musk-Ox: Dusty End | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...This had cost him two prison terms and an arrest last December. Digging into his secretive past, police found at least eight instances in which Forger Cline's buttermilk-drinking friends had died, leaving him legacies totaling $82,000. They also found that he left one of the coldest trails south of the Yukon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Buttermilk Bluebeard | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Shivering Teheranis called it the coldest spring in living memory. They meant not merely the winds from the mountains; somewhere between Kazvin and the Soviet border the Red Army was backing and wheeling in full combat regalia. No one knew just where it was, how big it was, or what it was doing. But that it was there at all was enough to shake the world's "foundations of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Foundations of Peace | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Stone Blackwell, 88, Lucy Stone's suffragette daughter, dashed off an unsolicited testimonial to the power of the press. Her letter to the New York Times'. "In very cold weather ordinary bedclothes are not enough. By spreading newspapers between the blankets one can keep warm on the coldest nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aphorists | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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