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...another errand of mercy. Into her hold went medicine, clothing, cigarets, food packed by Red Cross volunteers who worked day & night shifts. Aboard went the pathetic little gifts, prepared with great hope and sorrow, by the families of the American men & women who are spending the war in Japanese prison camps...
...Opened a new concentration camp in Patagonia, with 84 Communists among the first tenants (on moving day sympathizers made two unsuccessful attempts to stop the prison train...
...South African prison camp, Italy's leading welterweights, Gino Verdinelli and Giovanni Manca, steamed up training for a return match. The knockout of Mussolini had given the bout a red-hot political significance: Manca, winner of the first match (TIME, May 3), had become champion of the Royalists, Verdinelli, a gladiator of the Fascists. Faced with this explosive mixture, British officers, who had turned out in numbers to see the first fight, decided something had to be done. They ordered Manca and Verdinelli to put up their jump ropes, retire their sparring partners, the match had been canceled...
...Moon (20th Century-Fox] counters its lack of bombing with a brimming plotful of moonshine. From the time U.S. Air Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally snoots...
...Duce were really under arrest, his political career had now run full cycle, and an old claustrophobia might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...