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Starring speedy take-it-back Van Vort and his own reverse-it-all play, the Crimeditors will rely on minute timing and blindspot precision blocking. Months of practice have molded a powerful outfit, and the linetypes already clink merrily with a victory tune...

Author: By Radelliffe Occ., | Title: Crimson griddErs fiLe teeth pREparing for TiGer MeAt | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

Fernando Ortiz Rubio, playboy son of rich ex-President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was back in the clink again last week under the fanciest charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Merry Ferdinand | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...between soldiers and sailors, there has been no roughhousing at the Canteen. But in case there is, it has the advice of the Army morale branch as to what to do: "Play The Star-Spangled Banner. The boys in uniform must stand at attention or get thrown in the clink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Substitute for Mother | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Colonel Hilsman's first act when the war began was to throw 1,500 Japanese into the clink. When the Japs struck at Davao, first by an aerial assault and then by landing party, the news from Mindanao thinned out. All Manila could say was that "fighting continues." The Japanese were not fighting a silly, diffused battle for the Philippines. They were playing heavily on the assumption that they could wear down Philippine supply-especially of planes and ammunition-and strike hard before more could come from the mainland. In snatching Davao they were also going after a base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Push on the Islands | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

This week Judge Joyce handed out sentences of a year-and-a-day to 16 months in the clink. Even if Minneapolis' Trotskyite mice should win their Supreme Court appeal, their nest had been broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Mice Apprehended | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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