Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death by a small calibre bullet was the official verdict listed yesterday after an autopsy on the body of Eugene E. Harmon '50, ex-College Freshman, who was found two days ago in the Mystic River beneath the Chelsea north drawbridge and presumed before the autopsy to be a victim of drowning...
...individual portrayals are good, but the characters, in the few moments devoted to each one, are standard types: the patriots are staunch, tight-lipped, and unmoved, the German commander a thicknecked, bullet-headed remnant of the days of Von Stroheim's Junkers. The photography is excellent, but in the precarious position of being either documentary or drama or both, "Jericho" achieves at best an uncertain effect...
...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...
...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...