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...interest seemed to be a ground for reversal. Though he eventually approached 14 different attorneys, most were reluctant to take the case. Two lawyers who were willing had to be paid a fee-an impossibility for Geraway, formerly a part-time laborer and full-time criminal with 32 felony convictions, most for passing bad checks. Then the convict read a story about Professor Duke (TIME, March...
...auditioned for the part on a whim and got it. "I became an actor out of curiosity," he said during a Kojak shooting break last week in Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn...
Though Iowa Governor Robert Ray has been asked all kinds of favors, he recently received a unique request. A state convict named Bobbie Ferguson pleaded to be allowed to remain in prison when his sentence is up in a year: "I am writing you this letter to tell you that I want a life term I have no friends no family and no trade so I don't want to rob some one or steal I am not that kind so I am writing you for help in my matter to try to stay here for life. Thank...
...would argue that jail is not home for Bobbie. He has spent most of his 39 years behind bars and walls of one kind or another. He was born to a convict mother in a women's reformatory. Shortly after birth he was placed in a state hospital for 14 years. During this period, he may have enjoyed, or rather suffered, a few months of freedom, and may even have spent some time with his maternal grandparents. Between 14 and 19, the record is even hazier; Bobbie's story is that he was in one institution or another...
...much longer can the country afford a musical-chairs Government conducted by a one-man band? Impeach and convict the man and get this country back on its feet. This can't be the America they taught me about in fifth grade...