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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, July 21) were cleared last week by a special grand jury of 23 Georgians. The jury decided that Warden Worthy and his men had acted within the state law, which allows the shooting of escaping prisoners. Warden Worthy was not "half-drunk" at the time, as Convict Willie Bell testified. The prisoners were the most "undisciplined" in the state. Said the jury: "This trouble would not have happened had the prisoners been chained and striped...
This may be, as Henry Wallace insists, the Century of the Common Man-but is that just as dandy as Henry implies? How good is the Common Man? Last week, in the New York Times Magazine, Episcopal Canon Bernard Iddings Bell, who has been around colleges most of his life, indicted the Common Man-and his so-called education-in words meant to disturb the complacent. Wrote...
...convicts, brought in for questioning, told another story. Willie ("Peewee") Bell said that he had been the chief target of Warden Worthy's rage. When the warden told him to step out of the group, Peewee said, he knew what was coming. He remembered his own words to Worthy: "Boss, I ain't gonna come out because if I come out I'll come out dead." Again & again Worthy yelled at him. Then it happened. Peewee dropped with a -38-cal. slug in his leg, which saved his life as the guards' pump guns poured buckshot...
...Mass poisoning. Caldrons of hot tea and mercury chloride were served to hundreds of people. (The bell kept ringing, but this report took more than five minutes...
...village of Santa Eulalia on the Balearic island of Iviza) was bombed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Paul got out and wrote the moving Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Six years later, wearing his nostalgia for Paris on his sleeve, he hit the bell again with The Last Time I Saw Paris, a gamy, garlicky recollection of Left Bank life. Now he is going back where he came from. Linden on the Saugus Branch is the story of Paul's New England boyhood. At 56, Author Paul seems convinced that those were the days...