Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a grey prison-made suit, with $10 of the state's money in his pocket, Joe Majczek walked out of the penitentiary a free man. His hair was greying. He talked gently. He looked at the trees, at passing girls, and said, "They never looked so nice before...
...fall in 1942 Douglas MacArthur wrote: "Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men." Last week many of the Philippine wraiths were again flesh & blood, rescued after more than three years of Japanese prison life...
...list of men found "safe & well" was Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, hero of Bataan and successor to MacArthur. He was found in a Manchuria prison camp near Mukden...
Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...
...Doing missionary work in Sing Sing Prison and boys' reformatories...