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...shipyard barracks were quiet- too quiet-and on Sunday night rain drummed on the roof. Otto Stephen Wilson, 33, a fry cook in the yard commissary, looked at his face in the mirror. He could see why women smiled at him. With his black hair and neat mustache he resembled Robert Taylor, the actor. And women had no way of knowing what he was thinking, so secretly, when he smiled back at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Secret | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Nobody Knows. Otto Wilson watched the woman take off her chartreuse suit and fold it neatly across a chair. When he hit her she fell across the bed. He choked her until she stopped breathing; then pulled her to the floor. After he took the butcher knife from his coat pocket he lighted a cigaret and drank from a bottle of whiskey. Then he knelt, knife in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Secret | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...Otto Wilson bought a ticket at the Million Dollar Theater, went in. As he watched The Walking Dead, a Boris Karloff horror picture, the thought kept buzzing through his head: "I have killed a woman, and no one here knows about it." When the picture was over he walked into another bar and ordered wine. He watched a woman at the bar. After a while she smiled. Her name was Lillian Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Secret | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...Physics-Otto Stern, 56, a bald, stocky, mustached German, old friend & associate of Albert Einstein, who quit the University of Hamburg when the Nazis came to power, is now a U.S. citizen and research professor at Carnegie Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Winners | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Historic Hour | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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