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From a hole in the wall of Mexico City's penitentiary, guards extracted a counterfeiting outfit and 200 phony $20 U.S. bills. The proprietor was inmate Luis Eduardo Shelley Hernández, counterfeiter extraordinary, graduate of Atlanta and Alcatraz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Point of Honor | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Gaulle and Tukhachevsky first met during World War I. Both were young officers. Both were war prisoners in Germany. Both were interned at Ingolstadt, the Alcatraz of German prison camps. Both the short, ebullient Russian and the tall, solemn Frenchman were advocates of the new ideas of military mechanization. In their conversations each influenced the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Friends | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...critics who call Camp White the Alcatraz of training camps, Charlie Gerhardt has an answer: "We are trying to guarantee every man that, by God, when his platoon leader takes him into action, he'll have a chance of getting back alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - When You Fall . . . | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Japanese pilot, coasting down out of the sky, would have seen the billboards shining brightly on the roads leading into San Francisco. He would have seen the lights of Alcatraz, gleaming like an ocean liner on the black waters of the Bay. Over the downtown streets he would have seen the soft, red glow of neon signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: First Jitters | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...YOUR CINEMA DEPARTMENT OF JULY 7, YOU OMITTED, IT SEEMS TO ME, SOME OF THE MOST FASCINATING FACTS IN THE LIFE AND CAREER OF MY FRIEND BOB HOPE. YOU NEGLECTED TO MENTION THE 20 YEARS HE SPENT IN ALCATRAZ FOR KICKING LITTLE CHILDREN AND BEATING DOGS. IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN I GET MAD, BUT TO SPEAK OF THE "APPEALING AVARICE" OF HOPE, THE ONE MAN IN THE BUSINESS WHO DOES NOT DESERVE SUCH SNIDE REPORTING, IS FANTASTIC. I'M GLAD TO BE INTERVIEWED ANY TIME ABOUT ANY OF MY FRIENDS AND PARTICULARLY WHEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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