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...last week in office capped the climax. When a guard at the State Prison at Tattnall testified that he had regularly delivered ham, eggs and chickens to Gene's home, Gene was unperturbed. Said he: "Sure I got the eggs and the chickens and I ate them. ... I'd advise the next Governor to try the same plan. It helps to keep expenses down." Just before his special powers expired, Gene displayed thrift with a vengeance: he sent Georgia's check for exactly $1,070,231.35 to the Federal Government. This was the State's share...
Editorially the World-Telegram bemoaned the "prison-opening impulses of transient, interim governors" and implied that by paroling Arsonist Hoffman, Poletti was currying Labor's favor "as a future political asset...
Classed as objectors willing to accept noncombatant duties (1-A-O)-ambulance drivers, stretcher-bearers, etc.-were 6,577 others. (Most famous 1-A-O: Cinemactor Lew Ayres.) In prison for draft-law violations were between 1,000 and 1,300 avowed conscientious objectors, half of them members of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose claims did not get draft-board recognition...
...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...
...snatched a $20,000 payroll. In these times they needed draft cards, so they carefully engineered pickpocket jobs and fifth-rate stickups to get cards that matched their descriptions. But above all they needed 24-hour-a-day caution, and discipline that surpassed anything they had ever known in prison...