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Coolly fingering the long, deep dueling scar on the left side of his face, Kappler told the court how, after long consultations with Mackensen and Maeltzer, he had combed the streets of Rome looking for hostages. There were not enough condemned men in the Regina Coeli prison, so he had had to fill out the list with 57 Jews. Asked why he had shot 15 more than ordered, he explained: "Somebody must have sent them as extras, I guess...
...father, Marcus, ostracized by his Alabama townspeople but dominating the town, is as fascinating a character as Playwright Hellman has drawn. Cruel-cold-blooded, with a sardonic wit and a partly pretentious feeling for culture, he cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when...
...windswept stubble field on the outskirts of Regina, nine tractors were lined up, Indian file. Around one tractor and the "one-way cultivator" hitched to it, a crowd of 300 farmers, implement makers and Regina businessmen kept their eyes on the professor, a tall, husky man, clad in much-washed cotton trousers and shirt, a sweat-stained felt...
...marriages. But it has not proved an obstacle to motherhood. In cities across the country the illegitimacy rate is rising. Halifax reported twice as many bastards in 1945 as in 1936; Edmonton's rate was up 8%; in Winnipeg one out of every 13 babies was illegitimate; in Regina one of every four...
...world less likely to be moved by "one impulse from a vernal wood" than by a burst from a bazooka, Author Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) has seen fit to issue a new selection of the poems of William Wordsworth...