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...Willful Murder." In Tokyo last week a U.S. Army court-martial, headed by a major general and including a WAC lieutenant colonel, heard the prosecution accuse Dorothy Smith of "willful and premeditated murder." Shigeko Tani, her Japanese maid, testified that she found the colonel bleeding to death in bed and Mrs. Smith, in bra and panties, clutching a bloody, ten-inch-long hunting knife. A neighbor, Lieut. Colonel Joseph S. Hardin, found the defendant sitting alongside her dying husband, trying to light two cigarettes at once. She blurted out: "I'm sorry I didn...
...because of his intelligence and spirit, he was finally admitted. Tougher and more determined than his fairer-skinned colleagues-who made fun of his swarthiness-in less than nine months he raced through a 2½-year course in tactics, discipline, military law and history. He was commissioned Mulazim Tani (second lieutenant) of infantry...
With the general came his beauteous wife, black-haired, alabaster-skinned Rani Kaiser, 33 years his junior, and their 3½-year-old daughter Tani (Nepalese for "tugger...
...some $2,000,000,000 worth of art, but most of the movable stuff eventually turned up in cellars and salt mines and in the private collections of top Nazis. One first-rank painting had been destroyed by bombing: Mantegna's frescoes painted on plaster in the Eremi-tani church at Padua...
...headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented Patton with the special order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation: "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing a valuable service by placating them and removing any immediate danger of attack on the Allies' rear...