Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utah's state prison, slight, bearded, ageless (according to him) Hiram Bebee, sentenced to be shot for the murder of a Mt. Pleasant town marshal, took a highly philosophical view of the news that he had been granted a new trial. Said he: "Physical death is unimportant to me. I have lived many times before and will live many times in the future." The Bebee formula for indefinite life: "proper eating and thinking...
Last week at The Hague, Johannes A. Jonkman, Minister of Overseas Territories, struggled with the job of putting Citizen de Jong's fears into political terms. Jonkman, who lost all his hair in a Jap prison camp in the Indies, worked so hard to draft his speech to The Netherlands States-General that friends feared his health would break down. After he made the speech, interpreting the proposed pact between the Dutch Government and Soekarno's rebel Indonesian government, Holland's politicians and people were still as unhappy and undecided about the issue as Pieter de Jong...
...developed comedy of situation in an interesting and smoothly flowing story. Ably supported by Akim Tamiroff, handsome George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between kisses to become one of the first men in history to put love on a paying basis. Beginning with their escape from prison when they are enlisted to pose for a fresco of St. George and the Dragon, the Mutt and Jeff team adroitly carries the plot through the various sequences to its culmination in an cerie death struggle over money...
...miners themselves are concerned, it is a case of 'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do'. ... As far as the individual is concerned . . . the court thinks that nothing would suffice except a prison sentence...
Captain Kenichi Sonei, Japanese commander of Batavia's Tjideng prison camp, loved flowers, played with the children. But each month when the moon was full Sonei went wild: he beat the women, kicked them, had their heads shaved...