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...terrible judgment of their people. They will have to account for their sanguinary crimes, for their repulsive betrayal" (Marshal Bulganin). "The time will come when the people of Yugoslavia will avenge themselves and get rid of Tito's clique" (Khrushchev). "History will give Tito the choice of poison, as was Hitler's case, or the rope, as was Mussolini's case" (Literary Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DEAR COMRADE: | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

After laboratory tests which took two weeks to complete, the Examiner reached a verdict of suicide by poisoning. Farnsworth said that the origin of the poison was undetermined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Medical Examiner Calls Sagorsky Death Suicide | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

...Jacques Prevert script is well written, and the dialogue both mirrors and openly remarks on English "common sense." Old maxims are mixed--"Where there's an antidote, there's a poison"--and new ones made up--"Better a full beard than an empty pocket." There is much fear of scandal and it appears that there are a number of things that gentlemen don't do, although the gentlemen go ahead and do them anyway, in as clumsy fashion as possible. The costuming, which for some reason includes kilts, is appropriately ludicrous...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Drole de Dame | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Darkest California. In Los Angeles, Patrick C. Kimball reported that thieves had broken into his garage, departed with 20 poison-tipped darts, two 8-ft. blow-guns and a white man's shrunken head valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...lost in the tidal waves of vituperation that crashed around (but never engulfed) his tower fortress on North Michigan Avenue. In a 1936 poll of Washington correspondents, the Tribune was placed among the "least fair and reliable" newspapers in the U.S.; others denounced it as a "ceaseless drip of poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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