Word: prison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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January. In Salt Lake City, the editors of a prison newspaper had a consoling word for fellow convicts: "No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples...
...brown-mustached U.S. prosecutor Tom Murphy made his second bid to send Alger Hiss off to prison for perjury, spectators had covertly begun eying the gaunt, calm defendant for signs of reaction. It became steadily more obvious that the Government's case was tighter, more dramatically presented and more damaging than it had been in the first trial. But by last week in Manhattan's federal court it was just as obvious that Hiss's defense had improved as well...
...placed the ad is Dr. Alfred Weinstein, an Atlanta physician who spent 3-1/2 years in a Japanese prison camp and a year recuperating in U.S. Army hospitals (where he turned out a capable book, Barbed-Wire Surgeon). Japanese prison guards fractured his windpipe, broke one of his arms, blasted his ears. A year ago, convinced that Atlanta wasn't doing enough by the veterans, he borrowed more than $600,000 (most of it from FHA), teamed with a contractor friend and built a 140-unit project. This week the first 28 tenants moved in. After...