Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...
...battle of El Alamein, an Italian army officer named Giuseppe Berto was captured. He spent three years in a Texas prison camp. When he returned to Italy at the war's end, he found a publisher willing to take a chance on the rough first novel he had written behind the wire. Unexpectedly it became a bestseller in a country where few can afford to buy books...
Well Off. In Indianapolis, Lifer Walter Seward, paroled from the Indiana State Prison after a total of 22 years, was so shocked at the high cost of living that he persuaded the Division of Correction to send him back to jail...
...quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage. Over the years in which he fired Peru's depressed people with a hope for a better life, he had been in & out of prison, had known exile, lived underground. His party had often been guilty of violence...
...with a neat brown mustache and a look of respectability. He lives in an exclusive section of Dallas, drives a green Buick, has an attractive second wife. He has been supported in his pleasant position by panicky pregnant girls. Last week "Dr." Faiman was under a two-year prison sentence for selling "abortion paste" in interstate commerce...