Word: winlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Escape. But to the Ft. Harrison prisoners Private McGee was just another, if slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...
That ended the affair. Next day, officials counted the casualties: one guard shot and killed, probably by a ricocheting bullet (none of the prisoners was armed, the Army said); a city fireman dead from a heart attack; three prisoners wounded; six others injured, including Colonel Winlock; nine buildings destroyed by fire. No prisoner, the Army said, escaped...
Francis Taylor's predecessor as director of the Metropolitan, famed Egyptologist Herbert Eustis Winlock, resigned last April because of ill health. When he tackles the job next May, Director Taylor will face many a knotty problem. Chief problem will be to regain some of the initiative the Metropolitan has lost to younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser...