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Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald. At her trial she was convicted of having prisoners beaten to death, of using their skins as lampshades and other ornaments, and of taking part in the common design of cruelty in the camp. The most damaging testimony was presented by her own defense witnesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frau Ilse Koch | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...kicked Ava Gardner [Mrs. Shaw No. 5] several times and that she had 'responded nobly.' " Kathleen's lot: "He knocked me down" in the Norwalk, Conn. railroad station, and once "threatened to kill me." Still another time "he referred to me as a materialistic and vindictive bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Flophouse Night. Her temper trapped her into fits of firing & hiring that she sometimes later regretted. "The trouble with me," she once reflected, "is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch. I just cannot have friends for more than six months." She had to drink, she said, "because I have to forget all the mean things I have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cissie | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Exit Victoria | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...caught up with the other jockey, Vincent Nodarse, and al most put him over the fence. The stewards called Arcaro up to the stand, asked him if he had done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could." He was suspended for a whole year, and decided to be a good boy. "You know," he says, "I don't even break my golf sticks on the golf course any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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