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...there's a lot of resistance of taking like too seriously. We've done a lot of work in maximum security prisons. We and the prisoners have been convinved that there are wider possibilities in life that the game of cops and robbers. But it's hard for a convict to retain the serious goals he may have attained for moments through drugs; it's hard to get outside the game...
Boston politics are somewhat like the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland; the rules are topsy-turvy. A criminal conviction not only fails to tarnish a local candidate, but can enhance his political prospects. The latest example of this strange phenomenon is the victory of convict Charles Iannello, a political maverick from Roxbury's eighth ward, in the recent Democratic primary...
...meantime, an interchange between Mulberry and Mr. Smith has proved that the stalwart businessman Harvey Smith is, in fact, the ex-convict Hank Smith, and that Mulberry Foxhall shared Hank's cell under the name of Pete Malloy. To insure that the marriage will go on, and to gain partnership in Smith's business, Mulberry threatens blackmail. By this time, it would seem that truth and justice and virtue are hopelessly ensnared in the awful net of urban business, but Osgood arrives on the scene just in time to overpower Mulberry, discover on his person the stolen jewels of Smith...
...Hayes, chief of the toxicology section of the U.S. Public Health Service in Atlanta says that every meal served in the U.S. probably contains a trace of DDT, but that this is nothing to worry about. He and his co-workers fed 200 times the normal amount to 51 convict volunteers. The insecticide accumulated in their bodies for about one year and then was excreted as fast as it arrived. The human guinea pigs felt no ill effects, and doctors pronounced them as healthy as a control group that got the same diet without extra...
...escaped convict in this week's production of The Desperate Hours at the Mineola Playhouse on Long Island is a Negro-Sammy Davis Jr. When first seen on Broadway seven years ago, he was white-Paul Newman. Davis' talents give the role a snarling power it has seldom had since Newman played it, and it scarcely matters that the convict has changed his race. All the same, Davis' presence in the play is remarkable; it is one of the very few times that a Negro actor has stepped into a part specifically written for a white...