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...Second Front, at a pro-Soviet rally in Carnegie Hall. She was with him just once during a 23-day stay, but that once, she said, involved a three-hour visit to his Waldorf-Astoria bedroom. Back in Beverly Hills, she broke into his mansion one night with a pistol, "intending to kill myself," held the gun for an hour until he talked her into bed again. Admitted by both sides: Chaplin paid her train fare both ways but did not travel with her, did not pay her hotel bills. Asserted by the defense: she went at her own request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mann & Woman | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Second Lieut. Harry J. Light and two girls were sitting in the Camp Anza officers' club drinking beer with 2nd Lieut. Swancutt when the lady-killer suddenly leaped to his feet, began firing his .45-caliber service pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady-Killer | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Again the wild-eyed Swancutt opened fire. Two bullets landed in Schlegel's chest, two hit Policeman Simpson, who kept firing as he fell. Policeman Cole, a pistol marksman, blazed away. That was the end of the rampage. Swancutt was lugged off to a hospital, charged with murder, held for a military trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady-Killer | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

After U.S. doughboys had captured one house, four Germans stalked in through the front gate, throwing grenades and rattling machine-pistol fire through the open door. Two Americans were hit; one German was killed as the attackers scuttled back around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Seventeen Days | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...months beribboned Navy flyers have whispered behind waving hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: F7F | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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