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Besides, the authorities reason, Fuchs may still be trying to help the Russians from his prison cell. He may be confessing to have told more than he actually did-in hope that publication will finally transmit all his knowledge to the Russians. So the authorities figure that it is best to keep their mouths tight shut, act as if Traitor Fuchs had told the Russians nothing...
What could be permanent is the is the effect on the great outside world. Newspaper readers in general, and Boston ones in particular, may be getting tired of exposes of Harvard as a Communist cell. This particular campaign has been too successful; readers have come to accept the fact, and frequent rehashing serves only to gild the smear...
...with bits of scrap iron stolen from the prison workshop. Crawling painfully along the cramped tube, he carried the dirt out in his clothes and flushed it down the cell toilet. Midway, fresh-water seepage formed a narrow chamber high enough for a man to stand in. He matted it with old clothes and rags to prevent a cave...
...night last week, 70 ft. from his cell and ten years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
Hans Lunding, a Danish political prisoner, had a cell next to Canaris at Flossenburg prison. One day Canaris was led away for questioning. When he returned, the admiral raised his heavily chained arms and in the international code tapped out on the wall: "Bridge of my nose broken. My time is up. Send love to my wife." Next morning Lunding heard an SS man bark: "Strip off all clothes." Canaris, stripped, was led out never to return. (To humiliate the high officers in the plot, the Nazis stripped them, strangled many slowly with piano wire...