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...goes, so go the rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...
...Like Chessman. What beatings could not do, personal interest and kindness did. While in solitary, Sands was visited by crusading Warden Clinton T. Duffy. Duffy convinced the rebellious young prisoner that true rehabilitation would swing open "the Front Gate." Almost overnight Sands became a model prisoner and earned the right to work in the prison office and share a cell with another model prisoner-Caryl Chessman, who was then serving his first hitch at San Quentin. Years later, Chessman returned to San Quentin as a convicted kidnaper and rapist, and was executed. But Sands's reform was for real...
Speaking off the cuff to a crowd in Quincy House Junior Common Room, flamboyant trial lawyer Melvin Belli last night mentioned in varying detail the topics of the Jack Ruby trial, the self education of Caryl Chessman, the American judicial system, and the weakness of U.S. law schools...
...remarks directed to law students, Belli presented the case of Caryl Chessman to support his premise that a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of law is essential to becoming a good lawyer. By studying the basics of law while on Death Row at San Quentin Prison, Chessman was able to obtain writs staying his execution for twelve years...
Whenever TIME'S cover presents an unsavory or criminal character, a few of our readers protest-and probably will again this week. This sentiment was typified when we ran a cover on Caryl Chessman, the convicted kidnaper and sex offender who had become the center of a major legal dispute over capital punishment. A reader then wrote: "How could you glorify such a despicable criminal?" Similar thoughts were expressed about Lee Oswald when TIME did a cover story on his wife. We acknowledge the readers' feelings that to be on TIME'S cover is a distinction quite...