Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities were considered legal) were on hand last week when...
...shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked. The three men bailed, shouted for help, signaled with a flashlight. They drifted close under the walls of Sing Sing prison, but no one saw them...
...execution chamber at Sing Sing prison, on a fine June morning in 1904, a lanky, 30-year-old electrician named Robert Greene Elliott (son of a New York farmer who had intended him for the Methodist ministry) was testing current and equipment. With him was Executioner Davis. "Bob," said Davis casually, "I want you to throw the switch on one of the fellows this morning." Young Elliott turned hollow inside. "I've got to train two men to be executioners," Davis explained rapidly...
...faced witnesses began filing into the bare, dead-white death chamber. The doomed man, flanked by guards, came last, shuffled calmly toward the electric chair. Elliott fastened the head electrode in place, felt the doomed murderer shudder, joined Davis at the switch ten feet away. His head pounded. The prison physician waved his hand. "Now," whispered Davis...
...only are the characters well portrayed but all the technical jobs have been carefully done. The pace, a little too leisurely, perhaps, in the first half, quickens after the intermission, and Scarlett's visit to Rhett in the prison, and the Klan's revenge for the attack on her are overwhelmingly effective. The photography is often brilliant and the color is never in bad taste. The background music is well chosen. It is a movie to be discussed in superlatives, and from all indications, it will still be going strong (at 75e a seat) when our children graduate from Harvard...