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Suspect No. 1. At dawn on July 4 Marilyn's bedroom was red with blood. Her pajamas had been pulled open and her hands had been bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Forty Seconds of Fury | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...turned from the telephone in tears. A few hours later he had another heart attack and then another. A priest was summoned, and Alcide de Gasperi, a devout man all his life, received the last sacrament. His daughter began to read the prayer for the dying. Shortly before dawn, De Gasperi said: "I am dying," and then, with his last breath, muttered, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man of the Mountains | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...faced the firing squad, in the brown hills outside Athens before dawn last week, there seemed little reason for Nicholas Ploumbides to remain loyal to Communism. Behind him lay 28 years of service to the Red cause; he had been No. 2 man in the Greek Communist Party and chief of its underground espionage system. For more than six years, the tubercular Ploumbides had hidden in the squalid back alleys of Athens, playing cat-and-mouse with police, while he and his illegal spy ring sent information across the border. His sister had been executed for Red activity; his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Zealot's End | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Match's elaborate picture coverage includes everything from picture articles on the Ezzard Charles-Rocky Marciano fight and Cinemactress Dawn Addams to French colonial troubles in Tunisia. Says Publisher Prouvost curtly: "We put out magazines for the average Frenchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The LIFE of Paris | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Enter Macintosh. At the dawn of the auto age, the company started its own rubber plantations in Malaya, bought textile mills to guarantee supplies of tire fabrics. But Dunlop expanded too fast, was caught in 1921's commodity collapse with a disastrously big inventory of rubber. The Du Cros regime was ousted. In went Sir Eric Geddes and Sir George Beharrell, a brilliant management team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wheel of Fortune | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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