Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years ago she was born as Ana Rabinsohn. Estimates vary anywhere from 51 to 58 years (the Rumanian Legation in the U.S. cautiously states that she is "in her early 50s"). More certain is the number of years she has spent in exile or "underground" (15) or in jail (6). For Ana, after a fling at teaching school and studying medicine, turned to the precarious business of Balkan politics...
...them ended up by wangling a bed in the Northampton jail. That convinced them that what the college man needed was a guide to women's college towns, telling where to eat, sleep and dance...
Handicraft. In Hebron, Neb., Bandit Gene ("Three Gun") Howell carved his way out of the county jail with razor blades...
...Life. In Marietta, Ga., jail officials sicked a pack of hounds on the trail of a couple of escaped prisoners, eventually found the crestfallen hounds tied to a tree. In Baltimore, William Ashby was charged with stealing a Doberman pinscher watchdog...
Efficiency Rating. In London, James Ferguson muttered sadly: "I can't run like I used to, and I'm getting clumsy. I knock things over on the job"; he thereupon announced that, having spent some 45 of his 93 years in jail, he was finally retiring as a housebreaker...