Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Jacob Astor III, pear-shaped prince of the idle rich, drove down a Manhattan street in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, smacked into a jaywalking 17-year-old boy, was hustled off to a police station, where he borrowed two nickels to make phone calls, was freed and cleared after two hours of questioning, left in another brand new Rolls-Royce which he had summoned with one of the borrowed nickels...
Sirs: . . . Even three days later the story seems as up-to-date as some newspaper accounts. . . . MARY KELLY KING Cayucos, Calif. Looking Forward Sirs: TIME continues to make statements which disturb me greatly. I speak in reference to your repeated comments about military strategy for World War III. I certainly am not interested in participating in any future war and believe that, if we are to plan an enduring peace, TIME should not entertain its readers with such "potential propaganda." (PFC.) BAXTER S. SCRUGGS Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
...repatriated officer said that the 50 executed men were among 76 who escaped from Stalag Luft III, a huge camp about 100 miles from Berlin. The recaptured airmen were manacled, taken to a jail at Gorlitz. Gestapo agents told them: "Nobody knows you are here. You can disappear." All were killed...
...valid reason for keeping Badoglio in the Government was that he and shelved King Vittorio Emanuele III had signed the Italian armistice. That document was still in effect, still a factor in Allied relations with Italy. Before he would consent to swallow Bonomi & Co., Mr. Churchill reportedly insisted that each member of the new Cabinet sign the armistice, accept its terms in toto...
...claimed that they were pictures of his wife in her more irresponsible moments. She denied the nudes, said the others had been taken when she planned to become a model. Before the bell rang for Round 15, an inclusive explanation of everything was offered by Witness Josephine Douglas, Clifford III's nurse: "The vibrations of the Heinz household were wrong because the kitchen was painted black...