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From the window of his cell in Leavenworth federal prison in the early spring of 1920, Robert Stroud watched the building of the gallows on which he was supposed to be hanged for murder. At 19 he had drawn a twelve-year sentence for killing a man who had beaten...
MacArthur's most interesting remarks befitting a reunion concerned the past. He recalled that he had opposed a Russian plan to bring Emperor Hirohito to trial as a war criminal. "He was to be tried and presumably hanged upon conviction," said MacArthur. "I realized what such an action would...
Wall Street to Villa. Explorer F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, now 72, zestfully recalls a good bookful of such tall tales for gin-and-tonic reading. "Life without adventure is a state of being half dead," is Mike Hedges' philosophy, and in 1900 he turned from "staid old lady" London...
George Parke obviously had not told the whole story. After his funeral last week in Tampa, Fla., his omission was revealed. In another account, left to be published after his death, gentle old (87) George Parke admitted that he was one of the riflemen, probably the youngest, and the last...
Though top-level strategy is hammered out collectively, execution and considerable power of discretion is often delegated to one committee member. Thus, Molotov at San Francisco agreed to pay half the cost of a U.S. plane shot down over the Bering Strait, after only the most casual refer-back to...