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...German officer gave an order to a tankman, who opened fire on the Americans with a pistol. Another German in an armored car methodically sprayed the hapless captives with a Schmeisser submachine gun. Some fell to the ground, dead or wounded. A few fell, shamming dead. After the submachine gun was silent, German noncoms walked among the fallen Americans, systematically shooting all who moved or moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Murder | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch and scorn, and the elderly, harmless-seeming nabob is in savagely at the climactic kill. The hyperpituitary ex-convict, incidentally, finds his lost lovely at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...pair of beady eyes peering at him from a dark corner, flushed out a shiny-booted, handsomely uniformed German. Cringing no longer, the prisoner strutted about, barked orders: he would not surrender to a sergeant-go get an officer of high rank. O'Reilly's response: a pistol poke in the German's ample belly. He meekly joined the other prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Fat Cat in a Corner | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Pistol Packin' Yaleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Then one night several weeks ago a jeep crashed to a halt on a street in Rome. Police pulled a Canadian soldier out of the car. He was a deserter, armed with a pistol stolen from an American MP. Police stood guard over the jeep. When another Canadian and a U.S. sergeant showed up and tried to recover the jeep at gunpoint, the guards nabbed them. That was a break which U.S. Lieut. Colonel John R. Pollock, Allied regional director of public safety, had been hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mobster Abroad | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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