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...expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...
From 1917 until the day after Pearl Harbor, John Benjamin Powell edited and published a courageous, respected Shanghai newsmagazine called the China Weekly Review. Clapped into prison by the Japanese, J.B. suffered starvation and gangrene that hastened his death (TIME, March 10, 1947). Behind him, Powell left a son to carry on. Last week, in a Communist Shanghai that was virtually deserted by Americans, 31-year-old John William Powell was still publishing the Review. Old J.B., who called no man master, would have been surprised and shocked at its subservient tone. Son Bill had become an outright apologist...
Hedging its political bets, the A.M.A.'s high command chose as vice president General Practitioner Rufus Benjamin Robins. A Democratic National Committeeman from Arkansas, Dr. Robins also opposes the Truman-Ewing health plan...
When the police arrived, Benjamin Krieger half-sobbed his accusation: the narrow-faced man had been a "block leader" or trusty at Auschwitz. Benjamin and his brother Zelman had pleaded with him for food. The trusty had killed Zelman with a savage swing of an iron...
...Witnesses. The narrow-faced man told the police his name was Meyer Mittelman and that he was studying to become a rabbi. He admitted that he had been at Mühldorf, but he denied Benjamin Krieger's accusation and swore that he had never seen him before. The police took both men to a station house, jotted down their stories and sent them home. There were no facts to be examined, no witnesses to be questioned. No U.S. court had jurisdiction over a crime committed by a German slave in a Nazi concentration camp. Though...