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Anne Boleyn's Psalter-the one she carried to the scaffold- was stolen from Hever Castle-in Edenbridge, England, by burglars with a sharp sense of history. Other purloined items: Husband Henry VIII's signet ring, Queen Elizabeth's prayer book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Gastronomy | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Another tall boy, 6 ft. 9 in. George ("Scaffold") Mikan, last week reached a new height: he became basketball's highest paid player. After scoring an impressive 1,870 points for De Paul University as an amateur, Mikan signed up with the Chicago American Gears, an industrial team, to play for pay. Mikan will continue to study law at De Paul, will grind for the Gears twice a week, and hopes to collect $60,000 in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Allen's Idea | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...rude scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: I Thank You! | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Indestructible Man. In Chicago, Charles Anderson, slightly injured when beaned by a block from a scaffold, was forthwith flattened by a passing motorcycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: A Traitor Dies | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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