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...Phil talked about the war: about K rations and the time he rode a German motorcycle to get some ammunition. Mrs. Small turned the eggs over. "It don't seem hardly possible that you got over there and got back," she said. Pfc. Small sat on a stool and put his feet on the stove rail. "There's nothing to it," he explained. "They fire some shots at you and you lie down and fire some shots back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Return of Private Small | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...went out to the little courtyard where the gallows stood, a stout wooden frame with several hooks and a stool on which men stood before an SS kick deprived them of their last grip on life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buchenwald | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when he can no longer trust her; a scientist (Peter Lorre) demoralized by Nazi torture; a stool pigeon (Faye Emerson) and an aviator (Kurt Kreuger) who discovers that Miss Emerson's lover is a Jew. Best scene: General Massey, interrupted at his shaving, trying to accept fatal news with dignity when his face is covered with lather. Best performance: that of Helene Thimig, wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Perched on a high laboratory stool, crooning snatches of Beethoven and Mozart, an old man squinted happily through his microscope. Herbert Spencer Jennings, 76, was watching the complex love affairs of some of earth's smallest and simplest creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ah, Sweet Mystery | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...places are about the same, maybe a little better in Lansing. But should my Kansas friend decide his penitentiary was not well run, and express the hope that there might be a change of wardens, he would run no danger of being shot if he were overheard, by a stool pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red on White | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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