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...Spirited was the report of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates who called for the "professionalization of prison management." In ironic statistics he suggested his difficulties: "8,563 parole cases came before the parole board, of which the Superintendent of Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every working day, he would have to hear 28 cases a day. This is one of his sparetime diversions." And again: "One of these [officers] had 1,738 probation cases in his charge. If he visits them once a month, he will have to visit almost 60 a day, seven days...
...Fayettesville, Ark., Bernie Reed Beck, four, was adjudged the nearest perfect baby in town. Baby Bernie does not live with his parents. Reason: Mrs. Beck is serving a life term in Arkansas State Prison for killing Mr. Beck...
...California officer said that Vernon, onetime rodeo roughrider, horse thief, forger, had recently been released from Folsom Prison, Cal. He is unmarried, childless...
...asylum, the middle of the night for most convicts, the beginning of a new day for one, the beginning of the 200th day since he entered jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate. When the hour had struck, he, No. 10,520, stepped out to the prison yard and once more became Harry Ford Sinclair, a free oilman...
...Clarke ($2.50). Ibrahim, an Egyptian cuckolder, is imprisoned in Stamboul, about to be hanged for anarchy. To him comes Schomburg, Bohemian psychiatrist, one of the men he has cuckolded. He offers Ibrahim freedom, on condition that he commit suicide a year later. Joyfully Ibrahim signs the pledge, escapes his prison, flirts with guests on the Schomburg yacht, crosses swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide, Schomburg seems near, watching like...