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...Madam," said the foremost ghost, an imperious woman with a bullet hole in her head, "what are you doing on our roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Kwajalein and Eniwetok, finally landed on Leyte with the 7th Division. On Dec. 30, when a man was needed to cross a valley under fire and scout Japanese positions, Hachiya volunteered. He had worked out ahead of his protecting patrol, when he suddenly staggered with a sniper's bullet in his belly. He emptied his rifle at the enemy, and crawled back to the U. S. lines, gave his scout's report. Soon after, Private Hachiya died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Honorable Roll | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

When General MacArthur's forces rescued Dr. Stevenson from Bilibid and put him back to work, his first patient was the Japanese lieutenant who had jailed him. The man needed an operation for a bullet wound. Dr. Stevenson, a Presbyterian medical missionary in peacetime, performed the operation successfully, with all his skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Them That Hate You | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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