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...against the U.S.? "I think it's wrong," she admitted. "I've always known it was wrong." She had been talked into the whole sordid affair, she explained, by her husband's sister, Mrs. Rosenberg. Seated before her in court were short, plump Mrs. Rosenberg, her pale, spectacled husband, Julius Rosenberg, and worried-looking Morton Sobell-all three accused of wartime espionage, punishable by the maximum penalty of death...
Seated in Manhattan's federal courthouse, in the same courtroom where the eleven Communist leaders were brought to book, Defendant Sobell, 33, nervously scrubbed his fingers along his chin as the Government began its case. Tall and pale, Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring...
Pranksters scaled a 30-foot ladder and bypassed a padlocked iron door to paint the bulbs in the Lowell House tower a pale green Saturday. Usually bathed in orange light, the bell tower glowed emerald Saturday night in tribute to St. Patrick...
...devotee of Hindu philosophy who frequently spices his brilliant conversation with quotations from Hindu scripture, Ambassador Kratochvil had become one of New Delhi's most popular diplomats. Pinkish Indian intellectuals used him as evidence that Communists were all right. But when Clementis was arrested, the ambassador's pale, haunted face (he had spent five years in Nazi concentration camps) grew a lot more haunted. To an announcer on the New Delhi radio, Kratochvil said: "Will you please announce my death when it takes place shortly...
...Truman lived with her mother, little Margaret was brought up under fond, watchful eyes, in carefully guarded privacy. Bess and Harry were doting parents, partly because their only child was born to them late, when each was close to 40, partly because she was a delicate child thin and pale, with frequent deep circles under her eyes. There were other doting relatives: a cluster of uncles and aunts Mrs. David ("Grandmother") Wallace. Bess's mother, and redoubtable Grandmother ("Mama") Truman. Margaret admits that "I was spoiled outrageously...