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...Lomaxes discovered that a Negro folk musician would sing either religious or "sinful" songs, but seldom both. To find the "sinful made-up" songs they had to go where there were plenty of sinful Negroes-the State penitentiaries. On a Mississippi prison farm Convict Joe Baker (alias Seldom Seen) told them: "I never had been in no trouble wid de law . . . but one fellow kept messin' up my homely affairs, so I blowed him down." Then he sang...
...baldly charged her with lying on the stand. He told Joe: "I'm going to see that you get a new trial." But the State's Attorney's office did not agree. Joe got no new trial. Numbly, he kissed his wife and newborn son, became Convict 8356E, a lifer at Joliet...
Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...
Graduate. In Grand Rapids, Convict James Miller, who studied law during 24 years of a life sentence, finally celebrated his freedom after successfully pleading his own case...
...Payoff. If Harry Truman could act with political acumen and courage, he could also act like an old-line party man. Day after he nominated Lilienthal, he just as coolly paid off a political debt to the late ex-Convict Tom Pendergast, who had sent him to the U.S. Senate...