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...cemetery, six bareheaded youths—Private Weiner was only 18—carried the casket to a green hill among the sycamores. Nine solemn-faced Marines stood guard. When the body was lowered into the damp, fresh-dug grave, they fired three volleys into the leaden sky. Lots of people wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Back from the War | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Inside Hitler | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...screamed right out in the courtroom: "You'll never sleep again, Murray!" He tried to comfort Madeline. She broke down and wept and ran her fingers through her Hedy Lamarr hairdo. She sobbed, beat her fists on the table, and sobbed again. He wrote notes to her about how he loved her and how she was the loveliest and most beautiful woman in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...When they filed in again, they found all three guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy for Madeline. Eli's girl forgot again about being a lady. She pounded the table and screamed: "Please . . . please, I didn't!" Eli wept: "You have crucified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...when I ast him why he wept, dese woids I hoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mutiny in Brooklyn | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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