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Word: convicted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rioters with machine guns and shotguns. Shouting defiance across the prison yard, Ward held a knife at a guard's back as Crazy Jack warned: "We'll toss out a dead hostage if you start shooting." But as flying wedges of guards and troopers moved in, one convict was killed and eight others wounded under orders to shoot to kill if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Riot in the Big House | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...picture is a fairly lively but less legitimate account of these not-so-legitimate characters. The prison backgrounds were realistically filmed at San Quentin, but the six convicts are now jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Donald Powell Wilson spent three years as the San Quentin resident psychologist; the place was a clinician's paradise. In this period Powell found numerous father complexes and gave the "California Test of Mental Maturity" to every convict who wanted a short vacation from arduous tasks. The tangible evidence of Wilson's tenure are a large graph of San Quentin's I.Q.s and, much more valuable and interesting, the prose and film account of his personal experiences within the prison walls...

Author: By Michael Maccosy, | Title: My Six Convicts | 4/15/1952 | See Source »

...kept at night in Brink's Boston garage. Their keys, each with the truck's number, were kept in an unlocked drawer close to the street entrance. Almost anyone, it seemed, could have stolen a key or taken one long enough to get it duplicated. An ex-convict, now employed by a Boston garage, told the police about calling recently at Brink's to pick up a bank truck which needed greasing: he had opened the drawer, gotten the right keys, and driven the machine away without being questioned by anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Cup of Coffee | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Blue Faces. Waxell, born a Swede, joined the Russian navy in 1726 and the Bering expedition in 1733, bringing his wife and son along. It took the straggling army of human whatnot (adventurers, scientists, convict laborers, shipwrights, camp followers) almost five slogging years to cross the 4,000 miles of Siberia and join up in Okhotsk. There, in Arctic cold, the expedition built a large base and a small fleet. One squadron sailed south to study Japan; two ships, one of them carrying Bering with Waxell as his second in command, put out into uncharted seas to explore America from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyage to the Aleutians | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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