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...Fireman Gordon L. Dell testified that guards made him run around on his hands and knees like a dog, barking and biting other prisoners. "Once they ordered me to bite the guard sergeant. I crawled over but didn't bite him. He kicked me hard anyway. Another time a guard burned the back of my neck with a cigarette, and another time a second prisoner and I had our heads banged together so hard I lost consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Tough Discipline | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Navy Fireman Paul Basom swore that guards ordered him "to have a bowel movement in front of other prisoners. Then one man poured lighter fluid under me and lighted it. When it got hot I ran." Basom said he was later ordered by another guard to put out a burning cigarette with his bare feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Tough Discipline | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Handed. In Detroit, Lawrence Mish was nabbed for turning in a false alarm from a newly painted fire box when a fireman spotted him trying to wipe red paint off his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Many a braggart state has filed paternity claims for softball, but the most popular story blames a Minneapolis fireman named Louis Rober, who organized the game back in the 1890s to keep other firemen out of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Soft Series | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...like one. Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy cleaning (a cleaning woman comes in twice a week), will not climb ladders to wash the outside of windows (an off-duty fireman or cop does it for 50? a window) ; an upstairs maid does not dust downstairs; a downstairs maid will not clean upstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOOM IN HOUSEMAIDS: New Prosperity for an Old Calling | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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