Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adding one fat and very funny man to one thin and not so funny play, My 3 Angels strikes a fair average. Sam and Bella Spewack must have chuckled, occasionally, while writing this fantasy of three warm-hearted convicts at Cayenne. But it takes more than a running gag or even a moderate number of good lines, to make a comedy consistently entertaining. Rather than the authors, it is pudgy Walter Slezak in the role of a combination convict, Cupid, and J. P. Morgan, who holds the play's biggest investment in laughs. To him belongs much of the credit...
...barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock. Working on the theory that the murders might have been a crime of passion, police began looking for the ex-convict who had rented the room...
...Tallahassee, the state road department ordered TV sets installed in each of Florida's convict road camps "to improve the morale of the prisoners...
...best to prevent Physician Broda from getting a raise in pay (from ?950 to ?1,300 yearly) but was voted down. Last week he was busy trying to get the doctor fired from her job altogether. Reason: last August, Dr. Broda married Atomic Physicist Alan Nunn May-ex-convict and a key member of the U.S.S.R.'s wartime atomic-spy ring in Canada...
...Spring Valley, N.Y., ex-Convict George Poper was arrested after winning $165 for his hard-luck story on TV's Strike It Rich. When a kinescope of the show was telecast in Austin, Texas, Poper was recognized as a fugitive from an indictment for embezzlement and theft...