Word: vernet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School tie that is "one of the most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there...
...Manpower Commission last week swiftly settled a case arising under its order freezing workers in essential war jobs. Back to her war job in Elizabeth, NJ. went Miss Vernet Witham, 19, who had quit sewing shirts for soldiers and sailors to take up more congenial work in a nearby factory as a pretzel bender...
...song, but last week some of its saddest were heard in the U.S. The League of American Writers produced an album of records ($2.75) called Behind the Barbed Wire-six songs of the French, Spanish, Italian and German antiFascists who now rot in the French concentration camps of Gurs, Vernet d'Ariège, Argel...