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...went home at noon, went into convulsions at midafternoon and was dead at 6. After an autopsy, Homicide Detective Chester Eldredge announced that she appeared to have been brutally beaten, had died from a ruptured intestine, internal bleeding and an infection. Russ was charged with second-degree murder. He wept, and cried, "I blame myself." But he said he was sure that it was only the dive that caused Kathy's bruises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: The Man Who Wept | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Christianity has a long prison record. Ever since the days of the Apostle Paul, Christians have been familiar with the barred window and the dungeon cell. And ever since the first Good Friday when the cock crew and Peter wept, Christians have died rather than deny their faith and save their skins. This is the strict code of the Christian prisoner, but what of the compromises in between? Last week one missionary publicly castigated another for keeping his religion but buying his freedom with falsehoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missionary Who Lied | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Hawaiian hospitality that I am sure I will enjoy my visit here." As the ship nosed in, his eye was especially taken by a quartet of hula dancers; he asked, and was assured that he would see more hula-hula before he left. Thousands of Hawaii's Japanese wept, shouted "banzai." waved imitation cherry blossoms and risingsun flags as the Prince went ashore for a round of ceremonial visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Welcome for a Prince | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...beaded number and bounced through a happy performance of Gee, but It's Great to Be Again in My Home Town-and into her hit songs. Joni also found time while in Chicago for a sentimental visit to Bowen High School. She hugged her old teachers on sight, wept openly when she sang in her old place in the Bowen High mixed chorus, accepted a bouquet of roses, and got kissed on the cheek, on a dare, by a 17-year-old. For a farewell, Joni reached for the microphone and said: "If it can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It Can Happen to You | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...withered right leg was plainly visible to the jury and the tense, packed Manhattan courtroom. Songstress Froman was asking $2,500,000 for damages suffered in the tragic Pan American Yankee Clipper crash in Lisbon's Tagus River ten years ago, in which 24 were killed. She wept softly as she recalled the crash. "I saw flashes of lightning as the plane approached the airport . . . I remember the plane banking to the left . . . I came to in the water. I was under the water. I pushed myself to the top. I called out for help. They came and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Ten Years Later | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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