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...November 10, 1947, an inmate at Framingham hung herself with a knotted bedsheet from a sprinkler pipe in her bedroom. Senator LoPresti and a lawyer who represented the girl's parents demanded an investigation. When the district attorney confirmed the original verdict of suicide last May, LoPresti went to the Department of Correction. he also went to the Boston American, which obligingly slapped his allegations on page...
...dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to his blasted home, started patching it with hammer and nails. One man emerged from the rubble of the Texas Terminal Railway Building carrying $10 million in insurance policies in a bedsheet. He turned them over to the police. After dark, the inevitable looters worked the ruins...
Mercurochrome & Ink. The Russians on the other side of the Elbe- members of Marshal Konev's 58th Guards Division-sent up colored flares, the prearranged signal to designate friendly forces. Robertson had no flares. He took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...
...with OPA, he decided, was that no one had really told the U.S. what OPA was trying to do. Adman Bowles set out to tell it. He set up some 631 committees of farmers, housewives, industrialists to advise OPA (and incidentally to learn about it). He cut down the bedsheet-size questionnaires, pruned questions drastically. He wooed Congressmen with a special information service, took over the chore of answering letters from their mail which heckled...
...ward, and she fixed up the dining room, sitting room and enameled kitchen to suit herself. She also cooked, sewed and acted as a nursemaid for the warden's wife. But, as it will, prison palled. On a night in May 1931 she shinnied down a bedsheet rope, and with the help of a former trusty who was then out on parole, escaped to Colorado...