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...young Russian Brigadists, interned in a filthy war-prison camp in Delfa for four years, were better informed, better read in world affairs, than American soldiers who had had access to 10,000 newspapers-which they never read...
Roger Touhy, of Illinois Stateville Prison, was not allowed a peek when a movie called Roger Touhy-Gangster was previewed at the prison. Neither were any of the other prisoners admitted to the show. It was to start at 8:30. It was 10 before it did start. By that time the sound equipment had been repaired and the air sweetened. Somebody had cut an electric cable. Somebody had turned on the steam pipes...
General Henri Honoré Giraud recalled happily in Washington how he renewed an old German acquaintance. A year after he had slipped out of Germany's Königstein prison, he encountered a bunch of prisoners in North Africa, discovered among them his old jailer...
...more nervous heroes of hot jazz, Gene Krupa, went to California's San Quentin Prison this week to serve a sentence of one to six years. Drummer Krupa had been sentenced on two counts. The first was a felony: employing a minor, one John Pateakos, to transport narcotics. The second and lesser count was a misdemeanor: possession of the drug marijuana, a violation which, if it could be universally detected, would land a great many jazz musicians behind prison bars. It is no secret that some of the finest flights of American syncopation, like some of the finest products...
Fourteen months ago 22-year-old Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug, escaped from a Canadian prison camp, got in touch with Stephan, who gave him money and two days' food and lodging. Recaptured in San Antonio, Krug blandly served as star witness against Kamerad Stephan. The District Attorney did not ask the death penalty. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, however, ruled stiffly that would-be traitors needed a lesson, sentenced Stephan to hang. Three times the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case...