Word: wrongdoers
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...dozen sharply tooled poems, but they are among the best written in the U.S. this century. A critic of high reputation, he has never allowed his views to fossilize; he can retreat with grace from an untenable position, or with great courtesy flay the hide off a literary wrongdoer...
...Honor More. In Copenhagen, after reading a lurid newspaper report of the attempted holdup of a woman, a 17-year-old wrongdoer gave himself up to police, explained: "I want to let you know that it hurts my pride to be identified as a sex maniac. All I needed was her money...
...last half-century, millions of U.S. citizens have come to sympathize with one hopeful theory of modern criminology: that a wrongdoer deserves the chance of rehabilitation or psychiatric treatment, and that society profits if he is cured rather than blindly punished. But millions of the same people are becoming increasingly indignant at the follies committed by moon-gazing parole boards. Startled at the string of insane and dangerous criminals dumped upon it from prisons in recent years, the public had two more reasons for renewed indignation last week...
What is lacking in the performances of Lederer and Miss Shields, however, is counteracted in part by Bramwell Fletcher, who plays convincingly the earthy, bustling, hard-working detective who unearths the scheme and unmasks the wrongdoer...
...citizens paid little attention to the whole affair. There were good reasons: 1) no big-time officials were involved; the highest ranking wrongdoer found was a plant metallurgist; 2) U.S. Steel's president, smart, suave Benjamin F. Fairless, made no attempt to defend his company, readily admitted "very, very poor management," promised that all involved "will have to walk the plank...