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...Warden Edward H. Stubblefield, a political appointee who happened to be away from the prison the day of the break, could only wail that war jobs had lured away most of his seasoned guards. Said he: ". . . the great majority of the guards are green. . . . Last month 65 new guards were put to work. . . . The State pays guards here $109 a month for three months. After that they get $118 and $136." Only 75 guards were on duty, he said, guarding Stateville's 3,256 inmates, when the Touhyites fled. At week's end Illinois' Governor Dwight...
...them the League is planning night classes to prepare for helping out in day nurseries,* hospitals and convalescent homes, children's theaters. They will also be urged to work for their local Nurse's Aide Corps, Red Cross Home Service, Air Raid Warden Service, the U.S.O...
...were the Harvard auxiliary police and first aid groups. The emergency policemen will meet for organization next week, and will continue to assemble for training and pistol practice for almost a month more. First aid courses meet once a week for a total of 20 hours, with candidates for warden posts required to take an extra eight hours of instruction
...school and prep-school youngsters are eligible but not required to join the Corps. To wear a plain red V on his sleeve, a student must take courses in physical fitness and a war-useful subject (e.g., math), must enroll in at least one home-front job (e.g., air warden, scrap collector, farm worker...
...performance (it is billed as "the American Mrs. Miniver") fit each other like gloves without hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone...