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...aunt's door tightly locked. "Your Aunt Jeanne was picked up by the cops again," explained Sylvie sadly. That night Denise went down to the cellar to get a washbasin. In the dim light she stepped on something soft. Sylvie said: "You must have stepped on an old pillow I threw down there." To a girl friend, Denise confided with horror that she had "dreamed" of a woman's foot growing out of the cellar floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Green Eyes | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Excelsior Springs, Mo., police arrested Edwin Cotteleer, magician-entertainer at the Elms Hotel, charged him with making off from the hotel with silverware, dishes, two ice buckets, a crystal water pitcher, a card table, table mats, bath rugs, tablecloths, napkins, hand and bath towels, wash cloths, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow slips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...which did not burn, had also been doused with oil, apparently taken from the farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above his right ear. He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Mystery Killing | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Down Payment. In Spokane, six years after her dying mother told her to "hang on to that pillow and never give it away," Marie Flechsig decided it needed a new cover, ripped off the old one and discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...They also keep watchdogs, the fiercer the better: usually Dobermans or great Danes. Every white Johannesburger is ready to dial "30" (for the Flying Squad) at sign of trouble. To whites, between 300 and 400 firearm licenses are granted every month. The most popular weapon with the pistol-underthe-pillow population is a .25 automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CITY IN TERROR | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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