Word: jailers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were an unimaginative crew-mostly drunks, chicken thieves, wife-beaters and petty racketeers-and their prison life was as dreary as their crimes. Then, on a certain hot afternoon in July, a new warden took over. Pert as a pouter pigeon, rotund little Fernand Billa was a jailer less interested in penology than in poetry and strong pastis (a variant of absinthe). With plenty of verses and good drink to hand, Billa could find even a prison wilderness paradise enow...
Definition of Spying. Rickett tried to explain how it was after four years of imprisonment that he considered his jailer right and his own country wrong. When he first went to Peking in 1948, he thought the Communists were wrong; he thought that the Russians were coming down into China, that the U.S. should stop them. "After my arrest, I came to realize that the Chinese had a right to run their own country any way they wanted to run it. The new China exists. It is there, and it is a fact. No matter how we feel about...
They showed "lunatics" lying half-naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states. Among them, confined by court order, were conmen, kleptomaniacs, counterfeiters, and even some who had committed homicide...
...rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone has been able to match Hollywood at every point except two-the high-necked kimono is more resistant to bosomy uplift than the Boston board of censors. But along with cues from the U.S., Osone provides some fascinating clues...
...Other Escape. In Castlemaine, Australia, police hunted the cool thief who broke into the city jail, swiped the jailer's keys, backed his car up to the window of the jailer's office, heisted a 204-lb. safe containing $300, then carefully closed the door in the jail's main gate behind him before he drove...