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Second Honeymoon (Twentieth Century-Fox). Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in an arch new episode whose chief asset is merry-eyed, brunette newcomer Marjorie Weaver. Old stuff: Tyrone in the lockup...
...also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased...
...organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front of a Fisher Body plant. City police, called after strikers had locked up three private company policemen in the plant, used fire hose and tear gas to scatter a crowd outside. In the all-night battle which followed, 19 persons were injured...
...Federal Reserve Branch Bank of Memphis, Tennessee's bumbling old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar thought he would see how good the police were. He stepped on a burglar alarm. Police arrived in two minutes, took Senator McKellar to the lockup...
...preferable to modern scientific, heartless hypocrisy, another patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed, but absolutely inflexible, discipline. William Seabrook found the asylum a pleasant and interesting lockup. Soon he was walking miles through the snow, going regularly to the barber shop, whether he wanted to or not, attending compulsory dances and cinemas, and in the spring playing golf and tennis. But he could...