Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speculated that he might have been transferred for reasons of health, but information on the medical services available at the prison was not immediately available...
Divorced. Dr. Sam Sheppard, 45, Cleveland osteopath who spent almost ten years in prison for the murder of his first wife before a retrial led to his acquittal in 1966; by Ariane Tebbenjo-hanns Sheppard, 40, German divorcee and Dr. Sam's prison pen pal, who claims to have spent over $200,000 in the fight to clear his name; on grounds of gross neglect; after five years of marriage, no children; in Cleveland...
...dare to have his heroine develop the one sexual passion of her life for a vain and vicious 17-year-old popinjay, then, three months after his violent death, marry the man who had not only plotted his murder but abducted and raped her, only to end up in prison a month later, abandoned and temporarily deranged? Yet that is the actual history of Mary and her last two husbands, Lord Henry Darnley and the Earl of Bothwell...
...appeal was made by Richard M. Boardman, 26, of Acton, who was convicted of draft evasion last April and was sentenced to three years in prison...
...Lady Macbeth's most famous line to "Out, crimson spot"? Or to excise mention of Queequeg's underwear from Moby Dick? In framing answers, Noel Perrin, professor of English at Dartmouth, takes as his point of departure Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who had a passion for chess and prison reform and an aversion to London smog, sick people, and all writing that, as he put it, "can raise a blush on the cheek of modesty." Certainly the Family Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation in literary history. It gave Bowdler's name...