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...head of his security police, Nespoli, began the manhunt full of confidence. At the end of three days he was stumped, and in mortal fear that his failure to find the murderer would mean, literally, his own head. Reluctantly he tried to pin the crime on an innocent scapegoat, a halfwitted girl. When that failed, it was anybody's head. Cassano became a city of pointing fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morality Whodunit | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...party of three armed and uniformed male Communists and two women Communists walked into a British ambush on a hilltop rubber plantation. One woman, surprised, pulled a grenade from her blouse, flung it at the British and fled. British bullets brought down the others, among them Communist Commander Long Pin, No. 1 terrorist of North Selangor with a price of $8,000 on his head. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's policy of encouraging "whispers" from the native population is beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF MALAYA: Whispers | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...automatically excommunicated. Countered Tondi: "[The Church] epoch is bound to pass away." At week's end, to dodge an influx of visitors, Communist Tondi moved out of the comfortable apartment where he had been staying. Instead of his cassock, he wore a loud tie and a dark blue pin-striped suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rationalist | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...more likely that the Brink's gang, not Sutton, had Schuster shot for two reasons: to get him off their necks and to put suspicion for the Brink's job on Willy. Since the police were already trying to pin it on him, the murder would seem to be Willy's way of warning people not to testify at his trial. It almost worked...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Crime Marches On | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

Minor Sports H--Arlon T. Adams, She burne Falls; George P. Bates, E. Glouceter; Edward Collins Bursk, Jr., Cohasset Anthony A. Caimi, Philadelphia; Hugh I Chandler, Auburndale; Frank G. Dewar Cambridge; Richard C. Farrington, Pin Orchard; Icko Iben, Jr., Champaign, Ill; John H. Lee, Newton Center; James Fleming, Manager, Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Sport Awads | 4/23/1952 | See Source »

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