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...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...
...week some of the old, prewar hallmarks of empire were still present. The tuan besar (Dutch for pukka sahibs) sat in their white linen suits and drank fiery Bols gin on the terrace of the Harmonie Club. Every now & then in the evening their talk was disturbed by a bullet whizzing by from the lines outside the city...
...hours Josephine's stepmother called a doctor. He took one alarmed look, decided to send her to a hospital. But the ambulance did not come for another hour. When emergency-ward surgeons finally discovered her trouble it was too late. She died without knowing that a .22 caliber bullet, fired by boys playing on a housetop, had gone through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern...
...colorful life whose flamboyant tones were muted only slightly by the black robes of the Roman Catholic priesthood, fat, bullet-headed Josef Tiso had successively sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said...
...shrewd, 197-lb. Sid Luckman, 29, who does most of the thinking and all the passing. He leads the league with 1,826 yards gained by passes. His ball-carrying backfield mates are virtually middle-aged men (average: 28)-shifty halfbacks Hugh Gallarneau and Dante Magnani, fullback Bill ("Bullet") Osmanski...