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...marketing and the Russians put him in jail. He served two years and went home to Poland, although he was a Jew and knew what the Germans might do to him. They picked him up and sent him to the big concentration camp near Lublin where 1,500,000 died. Moische did not die. He was there when the Russians liberated the camp...
...When I Die." One day last week Mr. Lundy left the grocery store, headed for the Griffiths'. Next day the people of Pinecliffe began to wonder why they had seen no signs of Emily. Finally somebody broke into the shack. The dining table, near a window overlooking a creek, was set for three. On the living room floor lay Florence Griffith, in a puddle of blood. On the bedroom floor lay Emily. Each had been shot through the head with a .38-caliber revolver...
Fred Lundy's 1941 Nash sedan was found on a highway a mile up the canyon. On the front seat was his briefcase. In it were $350 in cash and a note: "If and when I die, please ship my body to Roscoe, Ill. . . . Thank you." Signed: Fred Lundy. At week's end police were still looking for Fred...
Last week the court-martial acquitted Little of all charges. But the case did not die there. Some veterans' organizations raised the familiar charge that Navy courts-martial have one brand of justice for enlisted men and another for fellow officers. West Virginia's Senator Harley M. Kilgore and New York's Democratic Representative Donald O'Toole demanded that the secret record of the proceedings be opened up for congressional inspection. Said Kilgore: "Such [secret] trials may be necessary in wartime, but they certainly are contrary to our peacetime ideas of justice...
With each fast, each boycott, and each imprisonment (by a British Raj which feared to leave him free, feared even more that he would die on their hands and enrage all India), Gandhi came closer to his goal of a free India. With the same weapons he got in some blows at his favorite social evils-untouchability, liquor, landlord extortions, child marriages, the low status of women...