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That night in their newspapers Romans read of extraordinary events at Umberto's Castel Porziano estate south of Rome. The story: forest fires had broken out simultaneously at several points, apparently set to trap Umberto's son, the eight-year-old Prince of Naples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: In the Middle | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...angry executioner slapped the traitor's face, sprang the trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: A Traitor Dies | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...dose, according to the experimenters, clears an outdoor area of insects for about two weeks. Blown through a house, the fog makes a season-long death trap for flies and mosquitoes. On the basis of tests so far, the DDT fog seems to be harmless to people, birds and animals (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Useful Fog | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

There is the blood-red flag with the black double-headed German eagle that Photographer Bob Landry tore from the wall of Gestapo Headquarters in Gela, Sicily (it might have cost him his life; he found out later that two British officers were killed by a booby trap in that room). There is the Japanese flag a Marine Corps sergeant who graduated from the MARCH OF TIME'S School for Combat Photographers sent us after the battle for Hill 660 on Cape Gloucester (scribbled all around the Rising Sun are good wishes from the friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Snead drew his biggest cheer when he nonchalantly selected a No. 5 iron, blasted out of a trap with a 175-yd. carry dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putter Trouble | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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