Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Chester Assizes the cog that had rebelled against the machine age was sentenced to five years in prison...
...high point in Corinne Luchaire's life was in 1939. She was 18, rich, beautiful, and the star of a French film that got top U.S. reviews-Prison without Bars. The low point came for her last week in a musty, obscure courtroom of Paris' Palace of Justice. Racked by fits of tuberculous coughing, her 25-year-old face seared and drawn like a crone's, she heard herself accused of sleeping with a prize package of Axis agents-Count Galeazzo Ciano, Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz, a long list of others, a Luftwaffe flyer to whom...
...jury thought it over for an hour, condemned her to ten years of "national disgrace." Divested of all rights as a French citizen, Corinne Luchaire would live in a prison without bars...
Married. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C., 43, pint-sized hero of Wake Island, who dryly denies that he ever radioed "Send us more Japs"; and Rachel Clarke Cooke, thirty-fiveish, ex-Junior Leaguer; he for the second time (his first wife died while he was in prison camp), she for the first; in Baltimore...
Died. Marshal Ion Antonescu, 63, premier and puppet führer of wartime Rumania; before a firing squad; at Jilava Prison near Bucharest. French-educated Antonescu, motivated more by hatred of Russia than by love for Germany, reduced Rumania to a Nazi satrapy, then tried in 1944 to conclude an armistice with the Western powers, failed, was trapped and imprisoned by King Michael...