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...negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust at the spectacle of Beppo's humiliation. Sometimes their influence is destructive, as when Mary Amberley persuades him to seduce his friend's sweetheart, causes his friend's suicide. But each incident exacts its influence or leaves its scar, leading Anthony along some path he has undertaken or blocking his way, strengthening some belief he holds about himself and the world or weakening it, forcing him at last to see that his philosophical detachment has been an escape and his moral indifference no more than self-deception. While Helen...
Roaring up to Cleveland with his prisoner. Director Hoover made the announcement. Back in Washington he called in newshawks, gave them details of the capture. As excited reporters were ready to rush away toward telephones, someone asked when the Bureau expected to catch William Mahan, scar-faced ex-convict who last June got $200,000 by kidnapping 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma, Wash. (TIME, June 3, et seg.). "Oh, by the way," smiled Director Hoover, "I almost forgot to tell you. We picked up Mahan in San Francisco at 12:30 this noon." Forty-eight hours after being...
...Constitution. First witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber man, who quickly revealed that the right-hand man who really knew the inner workings of his organization was one Vance Muse. A big, muscular, loose-jointed Texan with thick brown hair and a scar on his cheek, Mr. Muse swung up to the witness chair. Senator Black told him to sit down...
Plunging into this black morass with flashlights, hunting parties finally came across a 100-yd. scar in the forest which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
...many people the death picture of Gerald Thompson [TIME, Oct. 28] is more than "distasteful." It leaves a horrible scar. We don't expect to be so hopelessly exposed to that sort of thing in TIME...