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Visitas conyugales are Mexico's solution to the formidable problem of sex in prison. They not only prevent homosexuality, whose dank infestation in U.S. prisons alarms intelligent penologists, but also often change the entire behavior of a convict and leave him less vengeful and obsessed upon his release. U.S. prisons, at least officially, do not have the custom...
...Pardons last week paroled a lifer, Negro Clinton Brewer, because during 19 years in jail he had become a musician. He had written Stampede in G Minor, a jazz tune which sold well on an Okeh record; stood to get an orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie, who recorded Stampede and offered...
Richard Whitney, the ex-Stock Exchange president who became Sing Sing's best-known convict, came up for parole this week, hoped to get out Aug. 11 after serving three years and four months of his five-to-ten-year embezzlement sentence. He has been a model prisoner, and a parole has been recommended by the judge who sentenced...
Archduke Otto of Austria received guests in Hollywood, seated on a golden throne at last-a prop one borrowed from the M.G.M. warehouse. Ex-Bundführer Fritz Kuhn, now convict 26558, was refused a parole at Dannemora, where he is serving two and one-half to five years for stealing Bund funds. Despite good behavior, the board decided he was "a hazard, to the public peace." Red-haired Annelise Thomsen, wife of the Nazi Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said...
...even after strike leaders reached an agreement with the Board next day (raising wages 1? an hour), they deliberately delayed informing strikers. Unnecessarily lost were two full shifts of aluminum production. Washington, hopping mad, put the leaders under scrutiny, discovered that they included a reform-school graduate, an ex-convict and parole violator-and a whole basketful of alleged Communists...