Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breathers. In Bennington, Vt., impatient Murder Defendant Harold Frotten broke out of jail, left a note explaining: "I'm tired of waiting for that damn trial so went out for a little fresh air." In San Francisco, Charles Jones and Clarence Jacobsen, recaptured after a jail break, explained that they were short of cigarets...
...spelled it Biddle. Last week Russian-born Bartender Bitle, 42, went into common pleas court in Philadelphia to make it legal. He found he had failed to reckon with the descendants of another immigrant, one William Biddle, a shoemaker who served in Oliver Cromwell's army, served a jail term for Quaker preachings, and beat William Penn to the New World...
With the Indian leaders who were not in jail the Viceroy engaged in earnest discussions. But most of the time he listened. With the jailed political prisoners he carried on a correspondence marked by understanding and humanity. Indians accustomed to word-jugglery and nebulous formulas noted with surprise his crisp, matter-of-fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means...
Last week a group of griping soldiers met in Aldershot (pop.: 36,000). Soon the group grew to mob size. A rumor rose that some Canadian soldiers were imprisoned in the local jail. The mob marched off to release them. For two and a half hours they rioted through Aldershot, breaking windows, overturning cars, ignoring the pleas of senior officers...
...Imogene Stevens, tiger-eyed Texas beauty, held in New Canaan, Conn, for the killing of a 19-year-old sailor at a neighbor's, house (TIME, July 9), had an emotional reunion at the county jail with her paratrooper husband, who flew in from Europe on a 30-day emergency leave to help her. Busy trying to get his wife's $50,000 bail reduced, Major George Ralsey Stevens III stoutly declared to reporters: "She did what any woman would have done...