Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strength through Joy. In Stockholm, Sweden, prison authorities out to prove the curse of drink staged a football match between the jail's chronic drunkards and its other convicts: the drunkards...
...Work & Back. In Manhattan, Judge Owen Bohan came back from vacation, in three hours handed down 17 suspended sentences, sent 22 defendants to jail, went away to rest...
...Witnesses cast off wartime tribulations. In Germany, their disdain for human authority had tumbled 6,000 of them into concentration camps. In the U.S., their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...
Linda Christian, who makes Hollywood's pretty side prettier (see cut), got a look at the seamy side. A judge gave her five days in jail for doing 58 in a 25 m.p.h. zone. On her second day of confinement (in the company of some 40 ladies of the evening) she sent word to the outside world. Reported lovely Linda: "The place stinks...
Siqueiros thought he had the answer: the new painters were not fighters. He himself had served his first jail sentence at 13 (for sparking a student strike). At 15 he became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private...