Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Lamour changes clothes, to good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...
Fighting Surgeon. Tough, nervous, French-descended Hertzog served as a regimental surgeon on front-line duty in the Chaco war.' During his political career he has been jailed seven times, exiled six. Once, he was horsewhipped, burned, bayonetted and thrown bleeding on his cell floor. But when other prisoners marched by, he rose, put on his coat and stuck a flower in his buttonhole to show them he was still all right. He collects colonial paintings, admires Harold Laski, and says he is so healthy he can "eat bricks fried in automobile...
...Powell, 60, veteran newsman, prewar editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review and managing director of the China Press; of a heart attack, just after making a speech warning the U.S. against a resurgent Asia; in Washington. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese threw Editor Powell into a heatless Shanghai cell, where he developed gangrene and beriberi, lost 70 of his 160 pounds, eventually lost parts of both feet...
...this week 26 had admitted participation in the lynching, 31 were charged with a blanket warrant for murder. Taking no chances, Greenville's sheriff clapped 30 of them into jail, kept a cell ready for the 31st. Bail was set at $2,500. Among the 31, but not yet identified, police were sure they had the actual trigger...
...peddler, was beginning to look like a nice guy -if anybody believed the columns. Since he had been sprung from prison and deported to Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt. Somehow, said the keyhole-peepers, Lucky from his prison cell had helped the U.S. win the war. The Mirror's Walter Winchell solemnly assured his readers that after Lucky died, the Congressional Medal of Honor would be awarded...