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...Anastasia and his brother Albert, the rich Brooklyn mobster and onetime Murder, Inc. suspect who never stood trial, although District Attorney O'Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators retire and get J. Edgar Hoover...
Holmes, a slender, 39-year-old Negro, had loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...loudest shout arose over the victory of the C.P.P. leader Kwame Nkrumah, 41, a firebrand orator who had attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. (A.B. 1939; Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 1942; M.A. 1942, University of Pennsylvania.) Nkrumah was not among the crowd; a year ago he had been clapped into Cell No. 9 in Accra prison (two-year term) for sedition and inciting workers to strike. At the time of his arrest, a blank Communist Party card and a paper calling for a West African soviet socialist republic were found in Nkrumah's belongings. Observers of the Gold Coast political...
...check their theory, they injected huge quantities of white leukemic cells into a vein of each of five non-leukemic patients. Blood counts taken from an artery after the blood had passed through the lungs showed an immediate drop in the white cell count...
Psychologist Wilson got his first shock the first day. He asked the warden for some staff assistants to help administer psychological tests, and the warden simply gestured toward the cell blocks and told him: "You have 2,000 men to choose from." Convict assistants had not figured in Wilson's blueprint. But he wound up with six of them: a safecracker, a smuggler, a counterfeiter, a forger, a gangster and an innocent who had taken the rap for a woman...