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Old Thomas Pierrepoint was a good craftsman. He had a keen eye for sizing up the strength of his subjects' neck muscles; he always tied the noose so that it would break the vertebrae at the first snap and spare the poor blighter a lot of agony. He was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Pierrepoinfs' Profession | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

At first glance Ed Pauley seemed like a doubtful choice-there could not fail to be bitter debate over his heading a department which controls so much of the nation's oil reserves. He knew little about the Navy. But big, energetic Ed Pauley had a broad background of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Topside Rumor | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Surprise & Understanding. The Hong Kong episode came before the dust had settled from Foreign Secretary Bevin's first forthright venture into the field of foreign policy (TIME, Aug. 27). His denunciation of Soviet-backed Balkan Governments and refusal to countenance intervention in Spain shocked left-wingers who looked for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lesson in Immutability | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Her lines have been neatly tailored to her talents. They include such easy lines of cryptic folk poetry as "Was ya ever bit by a dead bee?" An even easier line, sure to bring down any decently vulgar house, is her comment on Bogart's second, emboldened kiss: "It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 23, 1944 | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

There are a lot of extraneous elements creeping into the day's curriculum. Along with statistics classes taught to martial airs, we now have the zesty wit of Bob Wing probing to the depth of the case at hand. So far only in Company one has such individual initiative been...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/1/1944 | See Source »

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