Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trumpeted a St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline over a long story carrying the byline of tough, tireless Reporter Ted Link. The story told how Frank Prince, 71, principal stockholder in St. Louis' Universal Match Corp. and a complex of subsidiary firms, had, between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less apparent import, e.g., one Prince company makes a currency-changing...
...Post-Dispatch stories were factually accurate. Frank Prince did have a prison record. That record was known to many if not all of his friends and business associates. It was known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had nonetheless cleared Prince for defense contracts. It had even been mentioned in Dun & Bradstreet. Indeed, among those closest to Prince, two of the few who did not know of his record were his wife and 24-year...
...Petersburg, Fla., caught by police after trying to escape from the state road prison camp, Prison Cook Fred Mayo told the judge: "I didn't like the food...
...Radio City Music Hall. But Choreographer Leonide Massine's appealing work demonstrated that La Scala is trying hard to catch up. The ballet opened against a backdrop of black-and-white hotel exteriors reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans drawings; the story then moved to nightclub, courtroom and prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover. The short piece was lavishly costumed-busboys in scarlet monkey suits, red-robed judges, policemen dressed in dominoes-and it amply displayed Ballerina Fracci...
...point, wearing a white chiffon gown, she danced an elaborate counterpoint to her female accuser with sensuous assurance; at another she fluttered behind prison bars like a captive bird. In one of the ballet's climactic scenes she danced a sexy blues number provocatively clothed in a low-cut gown. "Perhaps," said Carla, who is so thin that her fans call her "little spinach," "the dress was not exactly adapted to my physique." But at ballet's end, fans applauded through nine curtain calls, echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since...