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Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...
Prisoners who are quick to admit the faults that got them captured are released immediately. Others are marched off to "Shickelgruber's Pokey," a 50-ft.-square area surrounded by 16-ft. barbed wire. Overhead floats the German flag. The sloppiest soldiers get mild labor (ditch-digging), are taunted by insulting guards. Biggest single haul: 25 enlisted men. Highest-ranking haul: a colonel...
...cause seems to demand. Perhaps the number of the papers has something to do with these complaints, but one great cause of unwillingness to give liberally is to be found in the fact that the givers have only the faintest idea where all the money goes to. The Hokey Pokey Club need money to purchase new uniforms, or to play the Yale Club. A subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms, or the newspapers chronicle the result of the game; and soon another subscription-paper is circulated to pay a deficit. Now what the College wants...