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...Prison held some 2,000 U. S. sailors impressed from merchant and naval ships who preferred prison rather than serving against the U. S. They too had no sugar on their porridge. On April 6, 1815 they struck. Guards killed six. In memory of them is a stained glass window in the prison chapel...
...Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia's 147,000,000 people with three times as much food & clothing, three times as many farm implements, sewing needles, pens & pencils, milk pails, snow shovels, galoshes, brooms, beds, pots & pans, kettles, knives & forks, window...
...security of the rotor assembly, the arrangement of windmill-like vanes which keeps an autogiro aloft. Every layman wants to know what would happen if the blades flew off. Always the answer is: "They don't fly off." Hence, if a 'giro had flown through the window of his Philadelphia office and knocked him from his chair, Vice President Geoffry S. Childs of Autogiro Co. of America could not have been more violently upset than he was by what he read in the Philadelphia Inquirer one day last week: a story stating that a Navy 'giro...
Capt. Edgar Nutter, a doddering petulant man of 74, charged his brother with assault. He said that one hot summer day when he had been sewing an eyeshade for his weakened eyes, Capt. Fred Nutter had come into their room, put a calendar in the window to spoil the light, then whacked him with a monkey wrench. Capt. Edgar Nutter angrily insisted that his brother was too "bossy," that he should be safely jailed before he killed someone with the shoe-hammers and wrenches which he habitually used for weapons...
...Kinds of Women (Paramount). According to one of the minor articles in Hollywood's credo, all citizens of Manhattan who are not in the breadline or the bootlegging business live in severely modernistic penthouses. People who live in penthouses should not throw themselves out the window, but the villainess of this picture (Wynne Gibson) does so while intoxicated, mistaking a pair of glass doors which open on an airshaft for those which lead to the room where her inebriated guests are querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element...