Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much better at dialogue than drama. Saroyan's one-acter is more rewarding because it's simpler and more human. It tells of a guy (Eddie Dowling) in a small-town Texas jail who, before he is killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls. But the scene, quilted down with words, is merely touching where it ought to be intense...
From his latest cell, where he must spend six months for practicing medicine without a license, nine months for carrying a revolver without a permit, Phillips explained his success. Said he: "The secret of my success in medicine and surgery is that I was able to build a better mousetrap...
...Bridgehouse Prison, Powell's grilling filled a half-dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor...
...Powell's finger infected, a Jap doctor sheared the whole skin away without anesthetic. When his feet swelled painfully, the Jap doctor laughed and a Jap nurse futilely painted them with iodine. Removed to Kiangwan prison, he was put in solitary confinement in a 5-by-10-ft. cell. His weight had dropped from 160 to 80 Ib. When he could no longer walk on his twice-swollen feet, he was sent to Shanghai General Hospital under military guard, there had his toes amputated...
Company. In Miami, Fla., from his jail cell, Joseph N. Smith saw a man breaking into a parked car, got him arrested...