Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity the girl who marries Frank Duncan, clacked the gossips around the Santa Barbara, Calif, courthouse. The owl-eyed lawyer was arrogant and humorless, lisped so noticeably that teasing court clerks called him a "wicked wascal wabbit" behind his back. But that was the lesser half of it: Frank at 29 was a mamma's boy. Matronly, smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost. So tight was the noose that once...
...Aided by financing and free education, veterans quickly overtook nonvets their own age in earning power (from 15% behind in 1946 to 19.5% ahead in 1956). G.I. education boosted incomes enough, reckons the VA, to pay back its $14.5 billion cost in extra income taxes by 1970. Vets not only caught up on the old standard of U.S. living but became a mighty force in kicking off the postwar boom in consumer durables by founding the new suburbs, filling them with TV sets, home dryers, cars. Cartoonist Bill (Up Front) Mauldin, like many of his lesser-paid buddies, now treats...
...five men who publish the monthly Menard (Ill.) Time are serving a total of 130 years for felonies ranging from statutory rape to murder. Each workday, in the interests of some 2,350 convict readers, they troop in prison dungarees to the Menard Time* office to practice journalism behind the walls of the Menard branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard's Editor David R. Saunders has had job offers from several newspapers and a wire service. But it will be a while before he goes to press for pay: he has 32 years yet to serve...
Willing Wardens. Convict journalists* have responded to the qualified freedom they enjoy by turning out respectable papers and-in increasing numbers-respectable workmen. After spending 33 of his first 45 years behind bars, Morris Rudensky, alumnus of several prison periodicals, is a successful copywriter for Brown & Bigelow, a big and successful advertising-specialities firm in St. Paul, whose president also served prison time years ago. A former editor of the San Quentin News now operates three weeklies in Northern California...
...Named not for TIME but for what the prisoners are spending behind Menard's walls...