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Bald Fritz Sauckel had preserved an air of head-shaking detachment from his fellow criminals. But when a document was introduced showing that even Rosenberg had asked Sauckel to use restraint in his treatment of the slaves, he bowed his bullet head...
...Chicago apartment, Mrs. Marian Caldwell dug carefully into a grapefruit, then dodged back-a .22 caliber bullet, fired from outside her window, had passed through her nose...
...turned down a U.S. proposal that all Allied troops leave Iran by Jan. 1, in place of the treaty deadline, March 2. The U.S. thereupon moved 2,000 of its troops back again. The same day, in Azerbaijan, the Iranian Governor of Maragha fell to a rebel's bullet...
Spartanburg, S.C. was torn between pride and embarrassment this autumn when a local boy named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero...
Platoon Sergeant Charles Henry Smith, U.S.M.C., can go back to civilian life any time he wants. He has 232 points, three campaign ribbons with 17 Pacific battle stars and a chestful of decorations, including the Navy Cross. He also carries 39 pieces of shrapnel, a Jap bullet in his shoulder and another in his spine. But this week, as the Marine Corps celebrated its 170th birthday, indestructible, 27-year-old Sergeant Smith was glad to tell reporters that he was not going to be a civilian. He is a professional marine...