Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Way Out. In Ardmore, Okla., Bill Bryson and Harold Baker made their break from the Carter County Jail by cutting through the wall with a can opener...
Morning After. Two Klansmen drove the car and its three occupants to the outskirts of the town of Manchester, carefully wiped the steering wheel clean of fingerprints and vanished. Minutes later, discovered by a Manchester cop, the newsmen landed in the Manchester jail charged with drunkenness. Their city editor, Joe Hall, bailed them...
Jubilant Communists this week were busily plastering Rome's walls with the picture of a Roman Catholic priest. The caption: "One vote the Christian Democrats won't get. Monsignor Cippico, Vatican official, can't vote because he's in jail. He would have voted Christian Democrat -if he hadn't been caught...
Died. Saul Singer, 66, onetime chairman, Executive Committee of the Bank of United States, who progressed from rags to riches-and then to Sing Sing for his part in history's biggest* bank crash; of a ruptured artery; in Miami Beach. Out of jail in 1935, he headed for Texas with $75.74, started all over again, became a major independent oilman...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...