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This summer, Professor Jepsen went back to Wyoming with a nine-man task force which enthusiastically tore into the site with little awls and whisk brooms. Just below the surface they found a mass of man-mangled buffalo bones with the ends broken off (a handy way to get at the marrow). With the bones were arrowheads and spearheads made by ancient nomads whom diggers call Yuma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Pramote, who had heard the shot, ducked out the back door and dived into a canal. The Dwarf tore off his blue gown and rushed into the house, firing wildly. He killed Pramote's eight-year-old niece and the Ceylonese guest. Then The Dwarf dashed out, shouting to his pal to start Pramote's Packard. Pramote's chauffeur protested, trying to protect his boss's car. The Dwarf killed him, too. By the time police arrived, The Dwarf had disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Angry Dwarf | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore it open again and bled to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Protector | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...fight. In unoccupied France, he created the first of a series of officers' training schools. In 1942, when the Nazis took over unoccupied France, he marched his troops out for battle. When his Vichy superiors sent an order to remain in barracks, he went white with anger, tore the message to shreds. "Never will I receive the Germans at my headquarters," he shouted at the terrified orderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: On a Tightrope | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...body consumed with fever, his hands racked with cramps, Sanchez wrenched at the figure but found it firmly fixed to the altar. Unable to carry out his original plan, he tore off the statue's jewels, silver crown, scepter and diadem, and the crown of the infant Jesus in her arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hate & Vengeance | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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