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...wall of the old Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet one night last week clambered three long-term prisoners. They had been detailed to early morning duty in the bakery, had overpowered a guard, made a ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When the other inmates...
...must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having...
...Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. Mine products are its chief traffic, 40% of its tonnage. In 1922, sapped by Government control, burdened with a big funded debt, hampered by strikes in its shops, weakened by loss of business owing to coal strikes, the line tumbled into receivership, has lain there ever since. But its equipment has been kept in better than average condition, its double tracks between Chicago and St. Louis transport about half the passenger traffic there...
...Chicago, a Mr. & Mrs. William Watkins were startled last fortnight to discover on their new baby's back a bit of adhesive tape labeled "Bamberger." They telephoned to the hospital where Mrs. Watkins had lain-in, then to one Charles Bamberger & wife. Had their newborn son been labeled Watkins? Mr. & Mrs. Bamberger looked...
...Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write a Wagner biography, accumulated a vast amount of invaluable literature to that end. But for the 30-odd years since her death it has lain neglected in a safe-deposit vault, some of the papers found only recently in an old clothes hamper. It is with the support of this important collection that Authors Hum and Root have undertaken to deface Wagner's self-portrait, creating in its stead one of a mean, unscrupulous, supremely arrogant...