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...seen the Odikro, unconscious, tied in a chair with a long knife thrust between his jaws. The Odikro's blood trickled down the knife, dripped into a wooden bowl. A fourth said he had been handed the bowl of blood, ordered to paint Sir Ofori's stool with it. As the jurors could see, the stool had been painted. Fitted together, these bits of testimony spelled out the ritual of an ancient, sacrificial funeral rite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD COAST: Human Sacrifice | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

They escaped, but from the three in custody, Allied authorities collected names, addresses, information. Police dropped in on a Rome cafe just as the mob was driving away with an Italian civilian who had been acting as their fence. They had marked him down as a stool pigeon and were taking him for a ride. Police captured them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mobster Abroad | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Next before the bar was Boris Theodos-sienko, a White Russian refugee. He had been a petty stool pigeon for the Gestapo, had circulated through the boites, reported whatever anti-German talk his eager ear could catch. For him, seven years at hard labor, confiscation of property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Whom the Bell Tolls | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...phone rang again. The caller was a friend of Peter's mother: Mrs. James Thurber, wife of the humorist-cartoonist. This time Peter was ready. He hauled the piano stool over to the bookcase, mounted the stool and said: "Come quick. Mummy's hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Connecticut Morning | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

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