Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outraged or even curious when a petty thief named Edward Melendes died in a cell at St. Louis Police Head quarters on July 27, 1942. A chunky, good-natured, shiftless Mexican, Melendes had been arrested three nights earlier in a raffish nightclub (one with women hostesses and rooms upstairs). He had admitted his part in a $40 robbery. His cell mate and partner in the crime, Andrew Brinkley, testified at the perfunctory in quest that Melendes had fallen off his bunk, cracked his head on the concrete floor. The coroner's verdict: death caused by kidney disease and congestion...
Artificial Fog? Then a fog came up. First the charges against the detectives were dismissed on a legal technicality. Then police reported finding two convicts who swore that Brinkley had boasted he had killed Melendes in a fight in the cell. For a while Brinkley was hounded by police and FBI, charged with draft dodging, indicted for sexual perversion, perjury and, finally, for second-degree murder. Next came eminent physicians, who examined bits of skin tissue under a microscope, cast doubt that violence alone had caused Melendes' death. The Civil Liberties Committee, taking up Brinkley's case, could...
...Land: "As a rule, only that stability which is rooted in one's own holding, makes of the family the most vital and most perfect and fecund cell of society." Equally emphatic was Pius XII in his 1942 Christmas broadcast...
Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...
Room Service. In Sacramento, jail authorities finally discovered how Mrs. Dale Thrapp had got high without leaving her cell: a visitor had funneled drinks into Mrs. Thrapp through a small hole in the door...