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...Navy that its cruiser Houston had joined battle with the Japs. Then there was silence. Everyone knew the Houston must have gone down; everyone was sure that she had gone down gallantly. But not until last week, when the Navy gathered reports from survivors who had been held incommunicado in Japanese prison camps until the end of the war, was the story told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Death of the Houston | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Witnesses and suspects, deprived of the right of habeas corpus, were questioned in strictest secrecy in a ninth-floor room of the capital's guarded Justice Building. At night they were still held incommunicado, beyond reach of either relatives or lawyers, some at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks. The area was swept by floodlights and ringed with armed guards in buffalo coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Now You See It, Now You Don't | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Last week through the censorship leaked the news that five important democratic leaders had been suddenly arrested, and imprisoned incommunicado in barracks of the military police. Most important of the prisoners: Virgilio de Mello Franco, who had helped put Vargas in power in 1930. Two others were leading editors of pro-democratic newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Dictator Strikes | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Pierre Bonnard, at the great age of 77, was still at work, living almost incommunicado in the country near Cannes to which he retired at the beginning of the occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painters in Paris | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...faculty followed progressive Provost Francis Mitchell Froelicher to Colorado's Fountain Valley School. Last week Provost W. Brooke Stabler, an Episcopal cleric who formerly preached and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to take the headmastership of Michigan's Cranbook School. He and Mrs. Riddle were incommunicado. Faculty members were not talking about Avon's closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going Down | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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