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...announced that they had voted to sentence her to life in prison, instead of choosing the death penalty. "There was a sharp, collective intake of breath," TIME's Lisa Towle reports. "David Smith, the boys' father, stared straight ahead, not even blinking. Beverly Russell, her stepfather, pulled a handerchief and patted his brow, and Linda Russell, her mother, bowed her head and cried silently into a tissue." The jury of nine men and three women had taken the same amount of time last Saturday to convict the 23-year-old Smith ofmurdering her two young sons,Michael, 3, and Alex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUSAN SMITH WILL LIVE: | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

...large piece of tongue fell into his hand, and while the flabbergasted police interrogator stared, Politics calmly wrapped it in his handerchief and settled back in his chair. Doctors tried fruitlessly to stitch the tongue back together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...William C. ("Pop") Fuller, had had a hand in promoting this growth. Knowing how things were apt to be with the doctor away and all, he got into the way of dropping over every afternoon and taking Helen down to the Berkeley Tennis Club. "Pop" would spread his silk handerchief on the service line, give Helen four dozen balls and let her shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Intrepid Ingenue | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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