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Time magazine. New York: Time Inc., 1923-.
"Worse than Murder" (April 16, 1951): → 24.8-19, → 25.30
"Homecoming" (June 16, 1952): → 9.19-28
"The Last Appeal" (June 29, 1953): → Epigraph
"Rebellion in the Rain" (June 29, 1953): → 12.19-13.9
April 16, 1951, "Spies: Worse Than Murder":     (Cf. Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs p. 2451)
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[I]t was a sickening and[,] to [A]mericans[,] almost incredible history of men so fanatical that they would [betray] their own countries [a]nd colleagues to serve a treacherous [U]topia. The committee added that the FBI had reported no succesful atomic spying since mid-1946. Considering the damage already done, the nation could only hope the FBI was right.
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June 16, 1952, "National Affairs: Homecoming":
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"Inevitably, on such an occasion as this, memory is bound to turn backward," he began. "In fact,[t]his day eight years ago, I made the most agonizing decision of my life. I had to decide to postpone by at least [24] hours the most formidable array of fighting ships and of fighting men that was ever launched across the sea against a hostile shore. The consequences of that decision at that moment could not have been foreseen by anyone. If there were nothing else in my life to prove the existence of an almighty and merciful God, the events of the next [24] hours did it . . . The greatest break in a terrible outlay of weather occurred the next day and allowed that great invasion to proceed, with losses far below those we had anticipated[ . . .]"
[... ...]

June 29, 1953, "The Last Appeal":
It was Monday, the last day of judgment before the U.S. Supreme Court recessed for summer vacation. It was also, or so it seemed, the last hope before the bar of justice for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. For the sixth time, the mousy little engineer and his wife, waiting in Sing Sing's death house, had petitioned the highest tribunal, this time for a stay of execution and review of their trial. For the sixth time, a majority of the nine Justices rejected a Rosenberg appeal.
[...]
Then, as the clock ticked on toward 11 p.m. Thursday, the hour of death for the spies, Supreme Court Justice William Douglas acted alone. Unexpectedly, the court having recessed for the summer, he granted the stay of execution that the full court had denied. That touched off, within the next 24 hours, one of the most dramatic and novel episodes in all the august annals of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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June 29, 1953, "Cold War: Rebellion in the Rain":   CUT UP: stanzas 1-3 [normal] and 4-6 [italics]
By 7 a.m., the streets of East Berlin were alive with workers who would not work. [B]arehanded[,] they gathered in the grey morning rain. They wore the uniforms of their trades—masons in white overalls, carpenters in traditional black corduroy smocks, day laborers and factory hands in hobnailed boots and raveled suits.
Many were youths; some were peasants from outside the city. [I]n mumbling columns that suggested disconnected centipede legs groping for a body[,] they streamed from all directions toward the center of East Berlin, where the Communist proconsuls rule.
[...]
A Circus Parade. The columns and the sounds swelled. "Down with the People's Army! We want butter!" "Freedom! Freedom!" [S]hopkeepers hurriedly clanged down shutters of their stores and peered through the slits. From side streets and cluttered curbs, hundreds of others drifted into the march. Other columns melted into the one from Stalinallee.
So far, everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. [C]hildren on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. [A]n East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall [V]opo. "[H]ello[,] long one[,]" he cried. "[Y]our pants are open[.]"
When the crowd reached the massive new Soviet embassy on Unter den Linden, a pair of Soviet reconnaissance cars wheeled to face the crowd. Soldiers somberly pointed machine guns above the heads of the marchers. Six mobile antiaircraft trucks twisted through the crowd[,] nose to tail[,] like a team of prodding sheep dogs, to press the movement past and on to other places. But at Leipziger and Friedrich Strasse, where the chief government buildings stood, the mob's suppressed feelings broke out. [A]nger scudded in like a rain cloud[.] "[F]reedom[!]" they chanted. "Freedom!" "We demand the overthrow of the government." "We want the overthrow of Ulbricht."
The first brick broke a government window, then a cascade of sticks and stones began bounding off walls, streets and skulls. Two truckloads of Soviet infantrymen, sitting impassively facing each other on benches, were hit by thrown stones. None even turned his head. [T]housands began chanting the forbidden anthem[:]
[D]eutschland[, D]eutschland über alles[. U]ber alles in der Welt[.]
[... ...]
For the moment at least, the workers had been crushed—just as the workers of Russia had been put down on 'Bloody Sunday' in 1905 by the troops of the Czar. "But the Russians can't keep their Panzers here forever," said a young East Berliner lying wounded in a West Berlin hospital. "When they leave, we will fight again until they change the government." [O]n both sides of the [I]ron [C]urtain[,] the world heard with a thrill of [E]ast [B]erlin's rebellion in the rain[.] Until Wednesday, the 17th of June, the world had come increasingly to believe that inside a modern mechanized tyranny, it is hopeless to resist. Now hope was possible.
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Topping, Dan(iel Reid) (1912-1974) → Global Index  → Persons Index
Part-owner (1945-1964) and president (1945-1966) of the New York Yankees (cf. "Jan. 25, 1945: Future Hall of Famer Larry MacPhail, along with Dan Topping and Del Webb, purchases the Yankees").
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