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...CRIMSON last night is the first news that has been received of the famous CRIMSON prognosticator since his hurried exit from Cambridge last fall following the football season. After querying the Oriental sage by wire the CRIMSON was assured by its cooney observer that he would be out of jail and forecast the Kentucky Derby for his Harvard and Cambridge followers tomorrow and that he would also decree the way the crews will finish in the four-cornered regatta on Saturday...
Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, old-time labor crusader (TIME, May 5), received a congratulatory telegram on her 100th birthday from capitalist John Davison Rockefeller Jr., for picketing whose family's Colorado mines she was sent to jail 16 years ago. The message: ". . . your loyalty to your ideals, your fearless adherence to your duty as you have seen it, is an inspiration to all who have known you. . . ." Said she: "He's a damn good sport! I've licked him many times, but now we've made peace...
...train halted and the prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...
...There will be . . . battle!" Avowedly St. Gandhi has been courting jail, but when he achieved this "martyrdom" last week, immediate results were meagre. Baron Irwin had taken the precaution to revive and strengthen the disused Press Act of 1910, decreed that every obstreperous Indian newspaper must post high bonds to obey the Censor or cease publication. At one stroke this not only muzzled but stopped the presses of many provincial editors who dared not risk a large forfeiture plus the further risk of confiscation of their entire plants at the Government's pleasure. To stifle criticism further, the Viceroy...
...left the Indians, wandered up and down the West. When Prohibition came, Rustler Sage married, took to moonshining, gave it up after three years because of what his children would think of him if he went to jail. He and his wife never got along. Finally he left her and his three children, rode away and never came back...