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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chamber 13. Early in 1946, a firing squad shot grim, contemptuous Jean Luchaire for treason. Several months later, Corinne, racked by dissipation and tuberculosis, was condemned to ten years' "national indignity." Last week in Paris, Otto Abetz was on trial for crimes he committed during the German occupation: com plicity in maltreatment of Jews and French officers, looting French art treasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Men of Good Will | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice before-but the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Charity | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...protective, defensive role of pain was scientifically shot to smithereens," Soresi declares, "by . . . [Herbert S.] Gasser when he determined . . . the speed at which the various fibers transmit impulses and proved that the alleged pain fibers are among the slowest, if not actually the slowest." Nature, says Soresi, could not have been so inept as to give warning duty to its slowest couriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Long Shot. In McAlester, Okla., police surveyed the results of a three-way traffic accident: a trailer truck and switching locomotive were badly banged up, the horse was unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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