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...Robert Ley's heart and mind were further opened to the public gaze: 1) in Berlin, where his will was read; 2) in Washington, where the results of a postmortem on the suicide's brain were announced. The bibulous Nazi labor leader's will paid dithery tribute to "the beautiful women who have embellished my life so much," Inga (wife) and Madeleine Wanderer (mistress). U.S. Army pathologists, who have had the Ley brain since last October (see cut), found that the areas controlling behavior had suffered "a longstanding degenerative process . . . sufficient ... to have impaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...German Red Cross doctor who had been picking up wounded-both U.S. and German-delivered his postmortem: "We took too many orders, obeyed too many commands, listened to too many words, believed too many lies. We are a beaten people. We are a shamed people. We are reaping the whirlwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: We Are a Shamed People | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Hindsight. Not only was the epitaph pronounced but a postmortem was written by the Army and Navy Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: The Germans Stopped Us | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes of the Rock | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

When results of the doctors' postmortem were published (the bruises took two and a half typewritten pages to list), St. Louisans demanded to know: had the police clubbed Melendes to death? The Beaters. Newspapers dug up a photograph of Melendes taken at the nightclub shortly before his arrest, showing him gaily cavorting with a strumpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Whitewash in St. Louis | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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