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Into the bleak courtyard of the gloomy Jihlava fortress prison last week broke armed legionnaires of the green-shirted, Fascist, anti-Semitic Iron Guard. From the prison cells they dragged 64 Carolists, lined them up in front of a long trench from whose top they had just ripped a concrete slab. In the frosty dawn they opened fire, watched the bodies crumple to earth...
...police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police chief and watchdog over King Carol's redheaded paramour Magda Lupescu; Victor Ismandi, Minister of Justice when Codreanu was sentenced to prison...
...Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy's prison, under Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville, would get a glimpse of and a crack of their own at the fugitives...
After playing for the inmates of San Quentin prison, unconventional Band Leader Artie Shaw remarked that it was the best audience he had ever had. Wags immediately dubbed the prison "Swing Swing...
...Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison...