Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Catterall Leach, tall, fair and skinny, was 47 years old, had won the D.S.O. for his part in the Bismarck affair. He gave a continuous running commentary of the action against the Bismarck over the public-address system for the benefit of the crew buried below. When a shell...
Isoroku Yamamoto is not the grinning, bowing, breath-sipping little man with horn-rimmed glasses, eager mustache and super-buck teeth which U.S. cartoonists have selected as Mr. Japan. He is not a monster who enjoys killing babies and takes rape after dinner instead of coffee. He is, instead, a...
> Rumania's five-day Jewish pogrom last January was featured by "kosher butchery," a monstrous parody of the Jewish ritual for killing animals by throat-slitting. "All Jewish men from 18 to 50 years of age have been drafted for forced labor. Their daily food ration is one-eighth...
Forceful Mr. Fay, who has never sought the limelight, soon rose to fame. He became a big shot in labor circles, an employer, a pal of Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Charges of racketeering were frequently hurled at him, never stuck. He was named as a suspect in...
Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was...