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...sitting at the piano when Imogene burst in. The Kovacs brothers were a little startled. She demanded to know what they were doing there Al said: "I'm waiting for Faith," and walked toward the stairway. As James Kovacs remembered it later, there was the crash of a shot and Al dropped. Imogene fired two more shots. Then she demanded: "Now will you leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...last week the school janitor went down to the basement to rinse his mop, found windows smashed, wastepaper containers upset, paper scattered everywhere. Catching a flash of yellow disappearing up the stairway, he gave chase. Just as the boy was about to be trapped, he pulled a handful of stones out of his pocket, let fly a barrage. Dodging, the janitor slipped and fell on the wet floor. The boy disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Phantom of the Schoolhouse | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Earnest tourists who flock by the thousand each year to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art often enter the vast lobby, gaze in awe at the sweep of marble stairway and ask: "Where is the art?" Only those who carry a map and compass can be sure of finding their way through the Metropolitan's 325,811 sq. ft. of sprawling galleries, which house the most diverse collection of art objects in the world today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Museum with Five Doors | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...evacuated them from shore. The first patient, a soldier, had been wounded in the back and arm by mortar fragments. Dr. Beck examined his tag and pried under his bandages. "Put him in Surgical One Lower," said the doctor. The bearers lifted him gingerly and walked up the stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital Ship | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Kollontay has had to spend most of the past year in Mosseberg sanatorium, gaining strength after a stroke. Last Nov. 7, when the Russian Revolution which she helped to make was 26 years old, a river of people took 45 minutes to flow up the legation's broad stairway and pass Her Excellency in her wheelchair. About once a year a rumor spreads that Kollontay has been summoned home to answer for her sumptuous way of life. Just as often she has returned to her villa in the Villagatan. A lovely holiday, she blandly reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Madame Ambassador | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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