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...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: The Liberator | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Last Week. Farmer Anderson woke just before 5 a.m. As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning. He called his wife, Zula, to get up and get breakfast going. He slipped out of his cotton nightshirt and into shorts, faded blue work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Frank Anderson's Wheat | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...name of notorious Wuppertal Police Chief Paul Kinkier, founding member of the Nazi Party. When U.S. soldiers caught up with him last week in an attic hideout at Nissmitz, he chose to die by taking poison in the best Wagnerian manner-but in a hurry and in a nightshirt. Cried his grief-stricken wife over his body: "My husband was a good man. I just couldn't control him." Then she admitted that her good man had shot twelve people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bigwigs Bagged | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...climbed the very same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come downstairs in an old-fashioned nightshirt-wrapped in a big buffalo robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Winner | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...first big coups took place in the dead of night when he led 29 men through a maze of picket lines to the headquarters of Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, captured the whole post. First thing the Union General knew about the raid was when Mosby pulled up his nightshirt, slapped him on the behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Born for War | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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