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...From boyhood, handsome, wry John Gerard (Jack) Werkley wanted to be a reporter. Born 36 years ago in Paterson, N.J., at 17 he got his chance on the Paterson Evening News. Later, at the Missouri School of Journalism, he unofficially majored in the lives of great newsmen. Then, for seven years, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman...
Last week, when court officials entered his cell to take a deposition, General Castaneda spoke up: "I respectfully request my immediate release. My eyes are sick. I fear I am going blind." The court appointed two doctors to examine him. Their report: a boyhood injury has all but robbed him of sight in his right eye, and a mucous membrane is rapidly covering the left. They recommended immediate surgery. At week's end, the court had yet to approve the recommendation...
...Waldron-Dennis' boyhood...
...Skunk. She loved him at sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
...also walked into some serious trouble. As a successful lawyer who has never forgotten his own slum-scarred boyhood, Bogart agrees to defend Nick "Pretty Boy" Romano (John Derek), a young hoodlum charged with killing a cop. Bogart has known "Pretty Boy" for years, mistakenly believes him innocent, and blames society for the boy's criminal ways. To prove his point to the jury, he tells, in flashbacks, the sordid story of Romano's life. In the telling, Veteran Bogart inevitably displaces young Newcomer Derek as the real center of interest...