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Fighting Surgeon. Tough, nervous, French-descended Hertzog served as a regimental surgeon on front-line duty in the Chaco war.' During his political career he has been jailed seven times, exiled six. Once, he was horsewhipped, burned, bayonetted and thrown bleeding on his cell floor. But when other prisoners marched by, he rose, put on his coat and stuck a flower in his buttonhole to show them he was still all right. He collects colonial paintings, admires Harold Laski, and says he is so healthy he can "eat bricks fried in automobile...
...this week 26 had admitted participation in the lynching, 31 were charged with a blanket warrant for murder. Taking no chances, Greenville's sheriff clapped 30 of them into jail, kept a cell ready for the 31st. Bail was set at $2,500. Among the 31, but not yet identified, police were sure they had the actual trigger...
...peddler, was beginning to look like a nice guy -if anybody believed the columns. Since he had been sprung from prison and deported to Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt. Somehow, said the keyhole-peepers, Lucky from his prison cell had helped the U.S. win the war. The Mirror's Walter Winchell solemnly assured his readers that after Lucky died, the Congressional Medal of Honor would be awarded...
Again, the Senator claimed Lilienthal was "too soft on issues connected with Communism." This is substantiated by Taft's contention that "There is no doubt that a Communist cell was tolerated by Mr. Lilienthal in the TVA." A check of all the facts would show relatively few government agencies free from the infiltration of eight to 12 Communists, the size of the textbook-defined cell. If Mr. Taft is frightened by cell-infection, his fear ought best be focused on the Washington scene, where the presence of a dozen Communists in any department of several thousands would surprise...
...British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...