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...Oswald Mosley, Britain's prewar fascist leader who spent most of the war years in the clink (for the empire's protection), was haled to court for neglecting the pigs on his Crow Wood Farm. An in spector said that the pigs - 76 in a pen 40-by-35 ft. - looked underfed and "most unhappy." Worms, not starvation, made the pigs look peaked, Sir Oswald explained, and was promptly freed...
...always in love with rhyme," confesses Robert Service. "If two lines could be made to clink it seemed to go a long way to justify them. . . . Rhyming has my ruin been. With less deftness I might have produced real poetry." Many a middle-aged American would not trade The Shooting of Dan McGrew or The Cremation of Sam McGee for all the "real poetry" in the language. Robert W. Service rarely shows up in the better anthologies or in college English courses...
...packed off to Camp Roberts, Cal. There he continued to make his views clear. He refused to obey orders and was court-martialed and given six months in the clink. Released for good behavior, he refused to drill with his squad. "I would rather be shot," he declared. Instead, he was court-martialed again and sentenced to be hanged...
Scandalous but less serious were further revelations: three WAC privates, among the few dozen WACs stationed at Camp Hale, had been court-martialed and thrown in clink for writing notes (contents not specified) to the Nazi prisoners. Two others are being held for investigation...
...Clink Concerto. In its first two years San Quentin (Mutual, 7:30 p.m., Tues., P.W.T.) has become reasonably professional and picked up thousands of loyal listeners. It is the first prison show to go coast-to-coast. When Warden Duffy and Mutual's Pacific Coast affiliate, the Don Lee Network, first agreed to give the program a try, two years ago, San Quentin wags referred to the broadcast as "Concerto in the Clink." One inmate, looking over the crowd at the first broadcast in the prison mess hall, observed: "Those boys are lucky. This is one audience that...