Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notes & Bars. In San Quentin, Calif., Warden Clinton Duffy, hoping to keep the boys happy with a disc jockey program broadcast over the prison public address system, named among available selections: Time on My Hands, They Didn't Believe Me, Till the End of Time, I'd Do It All Over Again...
...lone cell in the grey prison building, was bitter with a special German kind of bitterness. Granted a stay of execution, Otto Striegel snapped: "Why wasn't I hanged with my comrades...
...Communists discovered a "dangerous plot" involving "highly placed persons." They arrested Bela Kovacs, personal friend of Nagy and secretary-general of his party, and 20 inner-circle members of the Government. Communist Police Chief Peter Gabor, at No. 60 Andrassy Ut (the Ministry of the Interior's political prison), was long a member of the Soviet secret police in Moscow; he knew how to get "confessions." What went on in "No. 60" was revealed in a smuggled letter from one prisoner. "The interrogation was a nightmare," he wrote. "I was allowed to lie down only six hours...
...Regensburg prison, a violent inmate attacked Fellow Prisoner Franz von Papen, gave him a beating, reportedly busted his nose and a cheekbone...
...French West Indies which still occupy an important section of France's colonial archives. One of the ablest early leaders of the French Revolution, he was president of the Electors of Paris in 1789 and received the keys of the Bastille from its conquerors after the prison was stormed on July 14. Like many another French revolutionist, however, Moreau fell out with the Genius of the Terror, Robespierre. He and his family put out to sea from Le Havre on Nov. 9, 1793, just 24 hours before the agents of the guillotine arrived to arrest...