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Lieut. Icardi, after the war, finished law school at the University of Pittsburgh, went to Peru for further legal study, several months ago returned to the U.S., and was working for Pan-American Grace Airways in New York when the case broke last week. After the three confessions naming him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Case of the Missing Major | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

For eight years, New Zealand authorities patiently waited before bringing Horry to trial. Then under the common law principle that anyone who has been declared a missing person may, after seven years, be presumed dead, they seized Horry. Last week, without a trace of a body or part of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Lost on a Honeymoon | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Most of the men & women in Novelist Mathew's planeload are in Africa for uninspiring reasons, e.g., failure at home, husbands stationed there. The exception is young Navigator Ivor McKenna, a Catholic, and the spirit that makes him different gives the author his message: "[After confession] he felt a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Archbishop's Parable | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

The Confession. When he appeared at the trial last week, there were no Western newsmen in Prague, and only two U.S. embassy officials were admitted to the courtroom. Oatis met his defense lawyer for the first time when the trial magistrate pointed to a stranger standing near by and told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Kangaroo Court | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

This time, the West had a better idea of how the Communists did it: Robert Vogeler, the U.S. businessman who had been imprisoned by the Hungarian Communists for 17 months, had told how his jailers tortured him, physically and mentally, until he was ready to make his own false confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Another Mindszenty | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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