Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Longo's attorney broke the sensational story in court. The prosecution stammered "Foul." The judge adjourned court hastily and took a week's vacation, beginning at once. But John Longo, denied bail, still languished in jail...
...Carlson said "would have no more effect than a fly speck on the Wrigley Building," the Court found the defendant guilty on seven counts, sentenced him to a $500 fine and a year in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. For Jean Paul Fernel, who once skipped bail in Detroit when charged with having his patients' clothes frisked while he gave them medical examinations, this was his first conviction...
...Sweden last week Staff Sergeant Benny Spring, 22, of Denver, an exchanged prisoner of war (see page 32), had a different story to tell. Benny was a gunner in a wounded Flying Fortress and had to bail out near Hamburg last July. He landed "almost in the arms" of three German soldiers, was herded with seven other Americans into a box car, trundled to Lüneburg. At a way station an angry crowd gathered, threw rocks, splashed hot coffee on the flyers, shouted "Schwein," worked up a lynching temper. The guards motioned to the prisoners to follow, started dodging...
...past 14 months, some 1,000 Washington restaurants, groceries and delicatessens were accused of violating sanitation laws. A few unruffled owners have been arrested as many as five times. But paying a fine or forfeiting bail (usually $25) has been easier than cleaning the place...
...over occupied Europe, Sergeant Gunner Wissenback's Flying, Fortress went into a flat spin. Pilot and copilot had been killed. Wissenback just managed to bail out at 1,000 feet, with only the chest-straps of his parachute hooked...