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...mail fraud, spent the rest of the 25-hour recess in clearing his lawyers, Charles M. Travis and Garrett A. Brownback, of being accomplices. As Foreman Houston A. Hiers returned the verdict, Hopson's moans & groans broke out afresh. He faced at least five long years in federal prison, plus a $1,000 fine...
...André Malraux (Man's Fate), who served with a French tank division, was wounded on June 16, 1940, later captured. He managed to escape from a Nazi prison camp, found himself in occupied France, for some time was unable to get out. Now Novelist Malraux is living at Hyeres on the Riviera, writing "the most important novel of my career...
Temporarily, the dilemma, of Poet Donne, his publishers and readers resembled the one he once scratched on the wall of his Fleet Street Prison cell:-Anne Donne, John Donne, Undone...
...Flanders, surrounded. From the beach at Dunkirk, Aragon escaped to England. Two days later he somehow made his way back to France, to the troops still fighting on the Seine and the Loire. Day before the armistice, the Nazis captured him, put him in a prison camp. Like Malraux, he escaped (with 30 others). His hair turned white. Now living at the village of Varetz, south of Limoges, in unoccupied France, Aragon is writing poetry, a novel (non-political). Aragon wrote a novel just before the war started, called it Les Voyageurs de l'Imperiale (l'Imperiale...
...uncompromising pacifist, and Minna, the maid, is German. On those counts and because his sermons are earnestly gentle rather than militant, Gordon suffers a good deal: cuts in the street, a dwindled congregation, anonymous letters, a stone through his study window. Minna commits suicide. John dies, of pneumonia, in prison...