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Just then Hermann Göring was crunching a phial of potassium cyanide (no one knew where it came from). When guards and a chaplain rushed into his cell, he was dying. Meanwhile, near Nürnberg's old imperial Castle, a band of German children hung Göring in effigy. Then they burned the makeshift scaffold and silently marched around the fire, watching it scatter weird shadows among the rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Night without Dawn | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Taped to Ribbentrop's groin was a phial of poison like the one Heinrich Himmler had carried and used. Ribbentrop gave his up, unused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Herr Brickendrop | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Bates saved all that remained of his father's rum, kept it under lock & key. Until his own death, whenever he visited Hartford, Conn., where his father was buried, he took along a phial of the rum, ceremoniously poured it as a libation on his father's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: End of The Old Lady | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Then Leader Pechanatz gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Tapped for Skull & Bones | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Harry Kunin wears a gardenia, its stem in a phial of water. Daily he commutes between Chicago and suburban Highland Park, where he has a landscaped "farm" complete with boat landing but no boat ("You've never seen anything like it outside of the movies," says Brother Max). One day last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commuters' Merger | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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