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Comeback. In Cleveland, questioned by a policeman, Motorist Theodore Kramer produced his driver's license with the address of the state penitentiary on it, was hauled back to his cell from which he had escaped a week earlier...
...froze quickly in the -50° temperature tasted just as good and fresh when he cooked them six months later, while food frozen by the old, slow method lost much of its quality and flavor. Birdseye persisted until he found out why: quick freezing prevents formation of large cell-destroying ice crystals. He went back home to Gloucester, worked out a commercial quick-freeze process, set up the business that became the foundation of the frozen-foods industry. In 1929 he sold his 168 patents to the Postum...
...Soft Cell. In Columbia, S.C., About Face, the newspaper published by the state penitentiary, ran a want ad: "Reporter for fast-growing biweekly in exclusive suburban area on historic Congaree River. No experience needed; will train for the specialized needs of the community; not much to work with, very little compensation, but there is a great deal of security attached...
...nothing to drink. Inside the palace, the troubled King was listening to two paramount chiefs as well as the father of both his wife and of his sweetheart Sarah. They urged him to reconsider his hasty action against Queen Damali. Prince Juko, far from being cast into a cell for a crime in the shrubbery, was gaily taking part in all the birthday celebrations. The consensus in Buganda was that Queen Damali had been framed and that, in order to marry Sarah, the King would have to try something else. One possibility: he might leave the Anglican Church and become...
Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah, and sipped tea with relatives and friends. When one of his sisters broke into tears, Mahmud told her not to worry, said soothingly that "death comes to everyone in this world." Driving in a police car to Naserieh Square, where the public execution was to be held, Mahmud sang contentedly...