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...Where is the shaved head and the big ball and chain?" asked small, terrified, 14-year-old Barney Lee. Barney had not found San Quentin Prison all he expected...
Said State Parole Board Chairman Booth B. Goodman: "I've seen a lot of tough 14-year-olds and this boy is not one of them." The prison chaplain, Father George O'Meara, and San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy, the judge and the parole board chairman were all in a quandary. They agreed that San Quentin is no place for a boy like Barney. But there is no law to permit his transfer. Barney does not seem to mind. He lives fairly merrily in the prison hospital...
...scare the Germans, Paul Joseph Goebbels tried to show them what would happen if Russia invaded the Reich. In Berlin's Lustgarten he set up an exhibition of Russia's worst side, such as dilapidated workers' hovels, a bloodstained door from Minsk prison...
...book, written in the form of letters to Nehru's young daughter, Indira, is sometimes sententious, sometimes ostentatiously simplified, occasionally inaccurate-because it was written in jails with no libraries and, says Nehru, because "during my brief period out of prison I have not had the time" to have a "competent historian" revise the manuscript. It is also strongly leftist...
...mystery of France's big, beloved old General Henri Honoré Giraud was no longer a mystery. When the 63-year-old general said he had escaped from Germany's Königstein fortress-prison by letting his ponderous body down 60 feet of self-made rope (TIME, May 11), the out-side world raised an eyebrow, suspected that Germany might have some use for a great French hero of both World Wars...