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...that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...
...sheets are then shipped to the other plants in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. The editorial matter is transmitted directly from TIME's editorial offices in New York City to the U.S. printing plants by teletypesetting machines. Overseas plants get acetate page proofs or photographic negatives of each page, sped...
...Berlin's East zone one day last week, a squad of Communist police sped to the Märkisches Museum and shouldered their way inside. A few minutes later they came out bearing two leather-bound volumes darkened with age. The books thus placed under "state protection" were the rare (but not invaluable) 1541 edition of the Martin Luther Bible. What made this particular Bible worth state protection to culture-conscious East zone Reds were the three drawings inside: freshly discovered work of the early 16th century German master, Mathias Griinewald...
Suddenly, thousands of Italians lining the shore let up a roar and pointed seaward. Out of the horizon sped the Leyte and the Midway. Well off the port, they dispatched four helicopters, and within minutes they were hovering over the Grommet Reefer; one by one, the survivors were plucked off to the resounding applause of the onlookers and set ashore. By nightfall, the 37-hour ordeal was over, and the happy crew was giving a banquet for Captain Saukant, last man off the broken Reefer, and in many a Leghorn household that night, Italians feasted happily on American turkeys, which...
Over the years, the tax-free philanthropic foundations have helped make the U.S. a true land of opportunity. They have spent millions to advance research, have sped hundreds of scholars on their way. But have foundation grants always been wise? Have some of them gone to support un-American and perhaps subversive activities? Last week a House investigating committee headed by Georgia's Eugene Cox was told: yes, on occasion...