Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other people were asking. Supposedly Happy Chandler had ruled on a spring-training squabble between Rickey and the Yankees' garrulous Boss Larry MacPhail, who had gone to Chandler with it. But since Durocher had been only a sideliner (if a noisy one) in that fight, Chandler had to convict him of more. So he dragged up the "accumulated unpleasant incidents" Durocher had been involved in (TIME, April 14). All of these had happened before the spring season began. Said the New York Times's Columnist Arthur Daley: "The Lip is in a comparable position to the chap hauled...
...folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which bred and bellowed in the wild lemon jungles, ate so many lemons that they made themselves sick...
...Convict the Guilty. Eighteen months have elapsed since the young (28) cipher clerk, fed up with Communism, stuffed 100-odd secret documents inside his shirt and walked out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...
...tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict and whore in the Pacific Northwest...
Last week Smith's beard was in bushy bloom. So, after three embarrassing months (during which one man was mistaken for an escaped convict), were the beards of many males in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. To go with them, womenfolk dragged out their grandmothers' dresses. With beards, bustles and a banquet, Poughkeepsie celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Smith Brothers...