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...next three weeks Low was up at daybreak, banging away at the Premier - always with the same result. Groza, a wilful old man who had to win, brought his own umpire, a burly sergeant of the security police with an outsize Luger on his hip. If Low aced the Premier, he was "Not ready. Serve again." If Groza's return hit three feet outside the baseline, the sergeant would give Low a stern look, toggle his holster and grunt: "Goot!" And no matter where Low's ball hit, if the Premier couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...minutes later, they found Emory Holt's body sprawled over a chair, a 9-mm. Luger automatic still gripped in his hand. His wife's body was stretched out on the sofa. Beside her sat the body of the man who had been her lover. The only sound came from the telephone. Still off its hook, it buzzed angrily and insistently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Broken Connection | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...everything but a wild west chase. The story of a British psychiatrist who can't solve his own problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down in flames, a sinister Luger, Japanese torturers, truth serums, a to-the-rescue courtroom exoneration, and a little boy whose gap-toothed, trusting grin sets everything right in a fogless London...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Mine Own Executioner | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Groza is a wealthy egomaniac who considers himself the greatest tennis player since Tilden, the greatest lover since Casanova and the finest figure of a man since Lionel Strongfort. At 64 he runs three miles before breakfast every day. He likes to have his bodyguard, who always carries a Luger, referee his tennis matches. Groza cheats, and his opponents rarely argue. Nevertheless, Groza is putty in Ana's hands. He goes to Mme. Pauker before leaving official functions and asks: "Do you still need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...sharp volley of police carbine fire brought down the foremost runner. The last man then turned and filled the valley with the blood-tingling screams of the terrorists as he wildly emptied his Luger in our direction. Two detectives, firing at close range, pumped 15 shots into him. His head was nearly severed from his neck when he fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: The Iron Broom | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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