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...Wills, 40, son of a Texas sharecropping fiddler, has fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your Own Sweet Darling Wife, with which...
Fortnight ago San Quentin's doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his San Quentin record. To add to his troubles, the Navy seemed reluctant to sponsor his "invention." The National Research Council was looking into it, but thought the hand did not differ materially from several others of the same type...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
...public pageantry that most Americans find boring. Called The Nazi Plan, it is the first full-length picture ever used as evidence in a criminal trial. Assembled by the Office of Strategic Services from Nazi propaganda films, this cinema history of the Nazi Party was made to help convict the accused at the Nürnberg war criminal trials...
...sought him out as they never had before. A few scholars and fellow poets saw in his case the ancient problem of the artist v. society. Jurists, who anticipated the most sensational case of its kind since the trial of Aaron Burr, wondered just how the U.S. proposed to convict its disaffected poet...