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...Vogeler wept when told that his wife was waiting for him in Vienna: his jailers had told him that she was under arrest, too. He knew nothing of what had happened in the outside world since November 1949. "You mean there's real fighting?" he asked when told of Korea. At his house in Vienna's U.S. sector, Vogeler leaped from the car, embraced his pretty blonde wife and two sons, 11 and 9. Exclaimed one of the boys: "Gosh-at last!" Vogeler wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: It Could Happen to Anybody | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...have lived long years and God has been good to me," cried Tobey from behind the green eyeshade he had clamped on his long, gleaming forehead. "I am a poor man and always will be. But there is one thing I am. I am a free man . . ." Tobey wept a bit, the jampack audience at Foley Square burst into applause, O'Dwyer stared moodily at the floor, and the Kefauver investigation returned to the business at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Mighty Interesting Visit | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...world. "Here in Crete, Sparta and the ancient Greek land," declaimed he, "it is common practice and tradition for strong men to steal their brides." Unmoved, the court found Constantine guilty of carrying illegal arms, sentenced him to two years in jail, plus a $400 fine. Tassoula wept and vowed: "I will go back to Crete so I can be near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Mount Ida to Jail | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Burmese nurses who had testified for Seagrave wept quietly. Seagrave patted their shoulders. His able Burmese attorney, U Kyaw Myint, who has served without fee, said: "I would like to appeal the case immediately. Will you sign the authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Sea of Troubles | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...Hopalong Hats. A white-faced state policeman, who had the job of cataloguing its contents, wept when he came to one item: two Hopalong Cassidy hats. A nationwide alarm went out; police set up roadblocks across half a dozen states. But William Cook and his .32 vanished. Then, three days later, back at Blythe, Calif.­1,600 miles from Tulsa­a deputy named Homer Waldrip strolled into an auto court to question a man who had been one of Cook's friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Young Man with a Gun | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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