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...little education did for me what a reform school, Sing Sing, a more recent 25 to 50 year sentence, and all the punishment this list implies failed to do. I am still a convict, but I am no longer a criminal. My faith in education is not based simply on its rehabilitation effect on me. I have watched its effect on others--not many I will admit, because few prisoners have the desire to learn, encouragement is scarce, and facilities are poor. But of those who do improve their education, none return. If the proponents of punishment are sincere...
...released, they will offend again. A large portion of prisoners regard arrest as simply "bad luck," rather than the inevitable, or even probable, consequence of crime, and the case of prison life, together with the difficulty to finding honest employment upon release, all tend to remove any reservations a convict might have about offending again...
...Cooper, Jenny Ann (Ingrid Bergman) Lindstrom. Her own parents were Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward. Last week, with most of the class doing post-graduate work†,Brooke Hayward, 23, made her TV debut on the U.S. Steel Hour, walking prettily through a preposterous play about a convict's revolt in an Australian penal colony. More than a promising newcomer to acting, she is something of a Scott Fitzgerald throw-back-the golden girl with "a voice full of money"-and a case history of Hollywood adolescence...
...junta still seems edgy at underground rumblings of Menderes sentiment, so much so that it often confuses free speech with conspiracy. One defense lawyer was jailed last fortnight for remarking in private conversation that evidence seemed lacking to convict any of the 520 defendants unless the verdict was prearranged. Two weeks ago the two lawyers defending Menderes were arrested and accused of planning to circulate a pamphlet arguing his case, and two newspapers were temporarily closed for printing a pro-Democratic declaration. Last week the junta jailed 65 members of the legally banned Democratic Party, including at least one trial...
...also some rousing prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment had come. My mouth felt suddenly dry. The Court was waiting and I knew the ordeal ahead of me was a long one. In telling the whole truth I might convict an innocent man . . ." The narrator testifies, dry mouth and all, for more than 300 pages about an oily Emir who wants more oil, and a berobed old Britisher with a patch over one eye and a theory that, by Allah, there is petroleum under a certain unpromising patch of ground...