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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanatic who shot Gandhi (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948), drank his last cup of prison coffee. While jailers waited, Godse and his accomplice, Narayan Dattatraya Apte, recited from the Hindu Holy Writ, the Bhagavad-Gita ("Fight, and have no fear. The foe is yours to conquer"). They walked to the scaffold, clutching their Gitas between the palms of their tied hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Retribution | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The 13 Steps | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Many of the accounts of Emmet's life have been lost; others have only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlucky Rebel | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Falls From Scaffold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

...hospital-to-hero episode began about seven years ago when Norris, never much of an athlete, plummeted from a 30-foot chimney scaffold on to a brick carrier's hod, injuring his left heel. Repeated attempts to heal it disclosed a dislocated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

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