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Best known in the U. S. for his illustrations of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol (to prepare for which he lived in six prisons), Mr. Vassos began life in Constantinople, "son of a Turk and a Greek woman from Olympus." He cartooned on a Turkish newspaper but was ousted for sacrilege in 1915. He joined the British armies in Palestine, was transferred to minesweepers in the North Sea, was torpedoed and rescued by the U. S. Navy. Carried to the U. S., he lived by painting butchers' signs until commissioned to do the Wilde illustrations...
...friends, Oscar Wilde in particular, Parson Will was more gentle. Sympathetically he reports Oscar's attempts to reform after his release from jail; the loyalty of his great friend and literary executor, Robert ("Robbie") Ross; Wilde's gratitude at the public reception of The Ballad of Reading Gaol...
...Cleveland, George Stevens, 35, in gaol for killing his wife, was refused a parole when he appealed on the grounds that it was his first murder...
...expect him to take office this month. On the strength of Secretary Washington's reports and the direct request of the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, President Hoover last week clapped down an arms embargo against the revolutionists. Penalty for its violation: $10,000 fine, two years in gaol...
Bugs Moran had been in gaol the day his partner was mowed down. Big, greying and hardboiled, he had suffered much from the puppuppetty-pup of the machineguns. His power really was broken when his seven chief followers were riddled in his garage, St. Valentine's Day of 1929 (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He then seemed to have abandoned 'legging for an anti-Capone cleaning & laundry racket. Even so, one of his chief North Side henchmen, Jack Zuta, was spattered to death by slugs last summer in a Wisconsin dancehall (TIME, Aug. 11). Rumor said that Bugs last...