Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soap and Soup. The Irish-born prelate and his cellmates, four Japanese criminals, spent a good part of each day mashing mosquitoes against the concrete walls of their 9-by-5½-ft. cell. It helped keep down the mosquitoes and it helped pass the time. Once a day the Bishop was escorted to a corridor washbasin - cold water and no soap. One morning a woman prisoner smilingly offered him a piece of soap. The gesture restored his waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop...
After twelve days the Bishop was taken to modern Gumyoji prison in suburban Yokohama. There he found other Britons and Americans, somewhat better food, and a cell which had a bed, toilet and washstand with running, drinkable water...
...last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities...
...President's dictatorial powers for maintaining the status quo will automatically expire. Congress, he hoped, will save him from Police Minister Aguilar, from President Arroyo del Rio and from confinement at Guaranda. Said he: "I did not pledge my word to return. . . . They even refused to clean my cell lest I should have someone to talk...
Died. Professor Arthur Lloyd James, 58, linguistics authority, wife-killer; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his cell at Broadmoor Insane Asylum, England. Professor of phonetics at London University, longtime linguistics adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp., he was committed to the asylum in 1941 after murdering his concert violinist wife, Elsie Owen. He explained to police: "I could not cope with my work. Rather than expect her to face the bleak future, I decided she should...