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...reporters on Chicago's grimy police beat are not likely to be treated with courtesy. But this one was. Last week at the East Chicago Avenue station, the police lieutenant on duty deferentially showed him the lockup, the blotter, wished him the best of luck. At the County Building, Coroner A. L. Brodie bustled about, personally paced the newcomer through the office routine. Young (30), Harvard-accented Marshall Field IV took everything in with urbane interest. He was entering Phase 2 of his journalistic education...
...Lent or Lockup? The custom of penitential preparation for every feast was inherited by the early Christians from the Jews. Early penitents in the Holy Land observed Lent by eating only two meals a week. But St. John Chrysostom (4th Century) did not urge such Spartan austerity for the multitude of believers...
...public penitence (sackcloth and ashes, strict fasting, no baths) until finally absolved of their sins on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. In those days, religion was directly concerned with maintaining public order; lawbreakers were ordered to join the Lenten penitents rather than be thrown into the town lockup...
Into the mairie marched the men of the F.F.I.; grabbed the collaborationist Mayor, marched him off with cuffs and kicks to the lockup. From among their neighbors they chose a new Mayor. Thousands of men & women thronged the bomb-scarred square to hear him speak from a balcony draped with the Stars & Stripes and the Tricolor. Emotion clogged the Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive...
...morning. These troops were the escort of Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite for April...