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...Within a month from today, there will not be a single Englishman on the continent of Europe outside of prison or a concentration camp, nor a dollar's worth of British business, if the German plans work out as the Germans believe they must...
...Thomson's life has not always been so peaceful. During World War I he volunteered with the British, flew in the Royal Flying Corps. Shot down in Flanders, behind the German lines, he spent months in prison camps before the Armistice freed him. Deeply moved by the Nazi occupation of Belgium last fortnight, he sat down and wrote some reminiscent lines...
...Eager to help, unable to enlist, an inmate of Southern Michigan State Prison suggested through the prison paper that idle machinery left over from the last war be moved to the prison so that he and his colleagues, in their enforced idleness, could manufacture munitions & armaments...
...cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period plot about the high-minded love of Governess Bette Davis and Charles Boyer which passes into tragedy, prison and ostracism after the thrilling unsolved murder of the Duchess, presumably by the Duke...
...faced, rawboned Uncle Bud Russell, 62, is Texas' prison agent. Armed to the teeth (two six-shooters, two gas guns, blackjack, brass knuckles), he likes to ride his convicts to jail with a submachine gun between his knees, has done so to some 100,000 of them in 35 years...