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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Journey into Fear | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Into the Fog. Claude threw open the door, clicked the bolt of his Mauser. In the yard a man shouted, "He's coming with the gun!" Claude fired again & again. Then, screaming, he ran into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Journey into Fear | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Driving in from the airport, we were protected by a Colombian Army private with his Mauser thrust through the open window. On the way he shouted 'stop!' got out, knelt on the running board and began banging away at some snipers down Carrera Séptima. When he jumped back in the car, he said: 'I think I got one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...orita Bombal herself once contemplated suicide. That was in Santiago in 1941. Instead, she ran into an old fiancé, impulsively drew from her handbag a Mauser pistol, fired four shots into him. He recovered, forgave, filed no charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Escapist | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...August they came back, went about their business as if nothing had happened. Late one night last week they prepared for an important conference in a blue-walled, chintz-curtained Hollywood apartment. Benny slipped a cocked Mauser under the bedsheets and hid a .32 in the closet. Levinson laid down a Gladstone bag containing two sawed-off shotguns. As it turned out, these arrangements proved sadly inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Killers | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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