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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred B. Parkhurst, sentenced last month to two years in the Federal Prison at Chilicothe, Ohio, for stealing $3000 worth of GI subsistence checks, paid the pound of flesh demanded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Middlesex Court yesterday morning, to the weight of two and a half to four years for 13 counts of larceny...
Parkhurst, Newton announced, would go in two or three days from the East Cambridge Jail to Ohio to serve out the time he owes to the Federal Authorities. At the conclusion of his detention there, he will be surrendered to officials of the Charlestown Prison...
Starting at different points in what may be called an average French town, the camera momentarily touches various citizens and follows their movements as their lives interweave. The point of final convergence is at prison, where, as hostages, they are awaiting execution in reprisal for an action of the underground...
Believe it or not, I feel no bitterness toward the Japanese, despite the hell they gave me on the Bataan "Death March" and 3½ years of prison "existence" as their guest. I did at first, but for my own peace of mind soon conquered this feeling. Neither do I feel any bitterness toward a rattlesnake. I see him for the venomous, treacherous reptile he is. EDMUND J. LILLY...
Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad came to grips with the postwar world in Paris. For her first big postwar concert outside Norway (where her husband died in prison, charged with collaboration), she was booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos (TiME, Jan. 27). When Flagstad walked onstage, the crowd was silent a moment-then broke into applause. To more applause, and tumultuous cheers, she sang some Grieg songs, and excerpts from Wagner in German. Said Flagstad, heading for London: "My conscience is clear...