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...tour before leaving for Paris. When his aide, Swedish General Aage Lundström, suggested that he take a detour to avoid snipers, Bernadotte said: "I must take the same risks as my observers." Near Jerusalem's Hebrew University, his car was hit by an irregular's bullet. Said he: "I do not like irregulars, and I do not like to be shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Man of Peace | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...which Bernadotte was killed was brought to Tel Aviv and parked in front of the U.N. mission's hotel. Someone had chalk-marked a jagged bullet hole in the rear seat, and a pretty brunette girl told passersby: "That's the one that got him." The staff of the U.N. truce mission had lost its last shred of idealism about its task. "I'm in the country where Christ was born," said a U.S. captain in a bar, "and I wish to Christ I was in the country where I was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Man of Peace | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...took a shower and put on a pair of two-toned blue pajamas. He left the shower running. Carefully, he spread out three bath towels on the bathroom floor and lay down on them. Gripping the same .32 automatic with which he had shot Joseph Watkins, he put a bullet through his head, just forward of his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Crazy Thing at Princeton | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Though it is costlier, the jet system penetrates as much as 300% deeper than the bullet system. Lane-Wells expects it to bring in a lot of new business. Rejuvenation prospects are so good, in fact, that the company this week begins doubling the size of its overworked machine shop near Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Shooting It Out | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Ringer. In Washington, William McClaine complained to hospital nurses that he had tripped and chipped his front teeth, conceded, after coughing up a .38-caliber bullet, that there had been an argument over a game of horseshoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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