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Correctional Institution. In Columbus, Miss., Convict Frank Gardner stayed on as chef after his term was up, stayed on as a prisoner after he was caught cooking stolen chickens...
...your Dec. 29 issue you mention the 16 European nations participating in the Marshall Plan . . . and you begin your enumeration with "Australia." . . . The actual participant in question is 971 years old and was already quite civilized when Australia was not even a convict settlement. . . . The country, sir, is the romantic little Republic of Austria. . . . MICHAEL HAMMER Berkeley, Calif...
...drown his wife without external signs of violence? Sir Bernard upended a nurse in a tub and the water struck her nose with such force that she became unconscious. He revived the nurse and the husband was hanged. That was one of 110 murderers Sir Bernard helped convict...
...Chicago had its noisiest night since the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre. It began when a blue-jawed ex-convict named Tom Daley marched into a South Side garage with two pals and killed an old friend who had turned stool pigeon. The trio then loaded four witnesses into a car. Daley broke the monotony of a long drive along icy roads by shooting them and shoving them out. When the last target was gone he went calmly to bed. The cops woke him up and mowed him down. too. The score: four dead, two wounded...
Bored Bostonians raised no outcry, saw little that was reprehensible or even novel in Convict Curley's return to office. He had been in jail before; in 1903 he served 60 days for conspiring to defraud the Civil Service Commission. The electorate nevertheless had made him mayor of Boston four times, governor of Massachusetts once and U.S. Representative thrice. Political observers, knowing that Jim was pouting because President Truman took so long to let him out this time, figured that the boss might fold his hands and sit out the 1948 campaign...