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...Gates, forced down near Courtrai, burned his bullet-riddled plane under his captors' noses; later escaped by jumping from a prison-train window in a German tunnel. Living on nothing but some crackers and a can of bully beef, he made his way 50 miles in four torturing days and nights to within exactly three paces of the Swiss border, where he was recaptured. But the Armistice came three days later...
...give Talleyrand a bishopric, his mother begged the King "not to disgrace the Church with such a bishop." One month after becoming bishop of Autun, Talleyrand left the Church, joined the Revolution, initiated a bill to strip the Church of all its property in France. Says Ferrero: "The rebellious prisoner had taken advantage of an earthquake to flee over the ruins of his prison...
After a sanity test (verdict: sane) Private Habinyak was court-martialed, pleaded guilty to a list of charges of insubordination. Then the court-martial showed it had little more sense of proportion than Private Habinyak. Its sentence: ten years and nine months in prison. Luckily for stubborn John Habinyak (and for the Army), the sentence had to be reviewed by the Secretary of War and the President. This week the War Department announced the sentence had been cut to a more reasonable three years...
...crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital prison ward, Marie babbled incoherently that she thought the Captain had been keeping bad company in his wife's absence. Murmured she: "I wanted to hurt...
...Sing Sing and into a waiting limousine popped Richard Whitney, paroled after three years, four months of prison for grand larceny when his brokerage firm failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...