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...Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Thomas Mann, after a chest operation at a Chicago hospital, was reported "doing very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inklings | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Shumei Okawa, onetime Manchurian railway official, carried comic indifference into broad buffoonery. He-interrupted proceedings by opening his crumpled shirt and rubbing his scrawny chest. Although a U.S. lieutenant colonel was assigned to watch him, Okawa slyly outwitted him, twice darted from his chair to smack startled Tojo's gleaming pate. Let out of court for a sanity test, he babbled in high-pitched English: "I don't like the U.S.; America is democrazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Road Show | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Thomas Mann, 70, was in a Chicago hospital "resting comfortably" after a chest operation whose nature the hospital would not divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Back in the dock, Frank sighed: "I had to get this off my chest. I'll sleep better for it." Then the man who thought that Poles were good enough for mincemeat returned to his Bible, and to his cherished picture of St. Florian, an officer of the Roman occupation force along the Danube, who was martyred in A.D. 304, and who became a patron saint of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Mea Culpa | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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