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...government's highest military award. Old friends-officers and G.I.s who had fought beside him in the first dark days-clasped his hand and pounded his back. When the time came to begin the trip home to his wife, son, daughter and a grateful nation, the general wept softly...
Some grinned, some wept, some stared...
...Judge Clyde I. Webster, 75, who held court from his sickbed, and Mercy Killer William R. Jones, 62, who sat at his side to be sentenced-wept with compassion for each other in Detroit one day last week. The judge's tears came as he considered the anguish which led Jones to electrocute his wife, Barbara, a sufferer from incurable diabetes, who had lost both legs and suffered agonizing pain. Jones wept as the judge explained that he could not condone the killing but could only "show you every consideration." "I want to thank you," said Jones, after getting...
...Parsons gripped the dock rail tightly as the verdict was read: not guilty because of unsound mind at the time of the crimes. R.A.F. wives wept...
...York City's Union Square, barricaded by police, a crowd of 5,000 took its cue from prompters on a sound truck, wept through the time of electrocution, sang Go Down, Moses, abused President Eisenhower as "bloodthirsty," shouted a pledge to carry on the work of the Rosenbergs until "we have created a world of peace and beauty...