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...three comrades who tried to escape (TIME, March 2), angered with the news that another prisoner had died while shackled in solitary confinement, 1,100 convicts at Joliet (Ill.) State Penitentiary dashed their food to the floor and rioted in the mess hall one noon last week. Guards drove most of them into the prison yard, fired at their feet with shotguns. Another group isolated itself in the kitchens, was later subdued. Within an hour all were herded back to their cells. Casualties: one prisoner killed; one guard and three convicts wounded. The Joliet penitentiary was constructed to house...
...true that inability to reach an agreement in any manner whatsoever on a possible substitution for the chapel drove forward the plans for its construction. However, the present agitation has caused many new suggestions to be offered, all of which might might be considered. The 600 odd signers of the CRIMSON petition, which was originally proferred by a member of the faculty, have proven their opposition and have mentioned many possible substitutions. It is practically certain that all the protest purely against the chapel will avail nothing. The time for destructive criticism is at an end. Too much...
...Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat." Mr. Vanderbilt then gave newsmen the "real truth": "I was riding with Mussolini, who drove. A small child ran in front of the machine . . . and was hit. I looked back to see if the child was hurt. Mussolini placed his hand on my knee and said: 'Never look back, Vanderbilt, always look ahead in life...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., went Lester Green, fruit farmer, with ten barrels of apples, in his horse & cart. He found it impossible to get a good cash price. He swapped apples for flour, flour for meat, meat for this & that, then drove home in a Model T Ford, bringing food for dinner, coat for lis wife, a pipe, a pound of tobacco, five gallons of gasoline, 50? in cash...
...Napier motor to second speed. At 125 m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned around and drove back again. Mist obscured the timing trap where a red bulls-eye was hung to guide him. Slightly off his course Capt. Campbell nearly missed the guide, but saw it in time and swerved into the measured mile without taking his foot off the throttle. His average time...