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...Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support charges. The charges run all the way from saying that Warren is a crook to a complaint that as governor of California he followed "the Marxist . . . revolutionary line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbo of the North | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nothingness of Our Time | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...Fabian left the Yard in 1949 with some 40 commendations, including the King's Medal for defusing an Irish Republican Army bomb in Piccadilly. Nowadays, he keeps busier than ever as a crime feature writer for the Kemsley newspapers. Looking back over his career, Fabian concludes that most crooks are not too bright. But one, he admits, outwitted him. This was the fellow who squeezed into an eight-inch-wide opening between the back of the kennels and the outside wall at London's White City dog track; he stayed there nearly twelve hours and doped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleuthmcmship | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Tipped off by an informer, West Berlin cops were waiting one night last week when a burglar broke into a junk dealer's home. They got more than an ordinary crook: once arrested, Kurt Knobloch began to talk, and what he said made the pinch, in the eyes of a top West Berlin police official, "the most important arrest made in West Berlin since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Kidnaper | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Harvard Outing Club yesterday elected John L. Sloanaker '53 of Leverett House, president, in a meeting at Lowell House. Foster S. Crook '55 of Eliot House is the new secretary, and Charles W. Querfeld '55, also of Eliot, treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Chooses Officers | 1/20/1953 | See Source »

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