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...police, summoned by brother Alphonse's widow, were waiting as Raymond stopped the car in front of Peter's house, but the cops were not quick enough. While they were crowding out of the police car, Peter shot Raymond through the head, put the rifle to his own skull and pulled the trigger once more. Both died that evening; all of Peter Akulonis' family had been wiped out. In Peter's pocket was a scrawled note: "I love Michael more than life. I loved Mom, Paul, Jimmy, Sis, Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Good Man | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Married. Glenn Davis, 28, All-America halfback ("Mr. Outside") of West Point's undefeated 1944-46 teams, now a Houston oil executive; and Mrs. Ellen Slack, 31, pretty World War II widow; in Shreveport, La., the day after Davis received word of his final divorce decree from up & coming Cinemactress Terry (Come Back, Little Sheba) Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...editing rules has been drawn up for French, German, Danish, Portuguese and Spanish subscribers, and rules for Indian and Italian names are now in the works. Typical of these is the five-step procedure used for shortening Spanish names: 1) eliminate y (and) or viuda de (widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...failures: Ben was literally hoist with one of his own petards. After a long and painful recuperation, he attended classes in "experimental philosophy" at Harvard, studied a little medicine, and at 20 was teaching school in Concord. N. H. (formerly Rumford, Mass.). There he wooed a wealthy widow some 13 years his senior, won her and became a gentleman of independent means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insufferable Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...many a night Zorba heads for the home of Bouboulina, a blowzy, scow-bottomed "old siren," once the darling of admirals and of fleets. When his boss refuses to make love to a young, appetizing widow, Zorba warns him: "Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all ... is not to have one." The boss takes Zorba's advice to heart and the young widow to bed. Meanwhile, Zorba never misses a chance to ask such puzzlers as: What is a woman? Who made the stars? Why do men die? The boss's widow is murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Force | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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