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Guns & Slingshots. But Rome's students did not see to pay attention. Hardly had the bells stopped tolling when another schoolboy, Filiberto Accica came home to weep over his failing grades in Latin and Greek. All day and all night he shut himself in his room, brooding as Giuseppe had. On Sunday morning, in the bright spring sunshine, he opened his window and jumped to his death. For his Greek professor, Filiberto left a note: "I do not kill you, I kill myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Be Good, Boys & Girls | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...What's it like in Red China?" Liu Shaw-tong replied: "Would you understand me, dear friend, if I told you that I saw an old woman weep because the sun had died in China?" The dead sun - Author Liu scarcely needs to say - is the one that once shed the light of freedom and humanity in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind Mao's Lines | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...tell all; but even she is finally persuaded that her brother's neck is worth more than her father's name, remains silent when testimony paints the dead man as a brute and drunkard. Novelist Grierson's feeling: well might the ghost of Robert Anderson weep with Omar Khayyám, "Indeed the Idols I have loved so long / Have . . . sold my Reputation for a Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Slight Case of Murder | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...because to each prospective employer he confessed his crime anew. Last week, however, somebody finally took George's side. Toledo's Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb looked at the record of George's case and refused to sentence him. When poor old George began to weep, the judge cried angrily that the bank had "invited" him to steal by keeping him "a virtual pauper for at least 22 years of his life . . . "The bank ought to be indicted here," the judge said. "I have no power over these men who were members of the board of directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Conscientious Embezzler | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...enough to make an old salt weep. On a cruise to the Mediterranean last summer, the sleek, grey aircraft carrier Magnificent, 14,000 fighting tons and the pride of Canada's navy, began looking like a ruddy art gallery. The radio-room walls sprouted brightly colored canvases, the shipwright shop was festooned with art, so was the barber shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maggie's Drawers | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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