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...environs during the later hours could prevent wrong doings. For the police it would involve merely transferring one or two men from comfortable patrol cars or the crowded, well lighted side walks. It would be no great change. Then the darkened Common would no longer be a Cyclops cave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Common Protection | 12/13/1952 | See Source »

...Boss of Corregidor." The witnesses, most of them fellow prisoners of Provoo, pictured him swaggering about the prison cave on Corregidor with a riding crop, toadying to the Japanese and terrorizing his fellow prisoners. As soon as the Japanese arrived, one witness testified. Provoo "made a deep bow" (the witness demonstrated it stiffly in court) and. in fluent Japanese, offered them his services. Thereafter, according to the witnesses' stories, Provoo worked for the Japanese as a combination of bully boy, informer and mess sergeant. He served them tea, provided them with liquor, whipped up three-layer cakes even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Case of the Buddhist Sergeant | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Group Three; Mayer-Kingsley) is a fairly maudlin title for a lean, unsparing movie about a Scottish mine disaster. Produced by oldtime Documentary-Maker John Grierson, the picture is based on a real-life disaster in the Knockshinnock Castle Colliery in 1950. It tells of a mine cave-in and the rescue of 118 miners trapped for two days in West No. 4 section between the firedamp and a flooded pit shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Internationally known cave-explorer Pierre Ageron will discuss French cave explorations tonight at the Biological Laboratories. The talk, which is being sponsored by the Boston Chapter of the American Speleological Society, will be given at 8 p.m. in Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Cave Explorer Tells Underground Stories Today | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

Ageron runs a commercial cave in Ardeche. "L'aven-Grotte Marsel," famous for its spectacular formations, is one of France's most interesting caves. Ageron reopened the entrance, which had been closed since 1394, three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Cave Explorer Tells Underground Stories Today | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

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