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Mowery tried to get into Dannemora prison to see Hoffner himself, but prison officials, angered by Mowery's World-Telly stories, refused him. So Mowery got in by tagging along with the assistant D.A. and posing as his aide. Then prison officials cut off all mail between Mowery and Hoffner. Mowery got around the ban by inserting his questions in letters that others sent to Hoffner. Reporter Mowery wrote more than 60 stories about the case, formed a Hoffner Committee and collected thousands of signatures on a petition for a new trial. But he was still short one crucial...
...only boy from a slum who got rich in the rackets: in his day the U.S. had become as much a land of opportunity for the graduate of Dannemora as for the graduate of Dartmouth. But Frank Costello had the brains, luck and jungle caution to stay rich-rich, alive and free as air-while Al Capone went raving to his grave, while bullets cut down Dutch Schultz and Dion O'Banion, while Lepke Buchalter burned in the electric chair, while Lucky Luciano went off to exile and a hundred minor hoodlums rotted in prison...
...justice in the past dealt Kuhn a $10 traffic fine in Edgewater, N.J., a $5 fine for drunkenness & public profanity in Webster, Mass., a 2½-to-5-year sentence in Dannemora after he was caught with his hand in the Bund till...
...past all sorts of people have found the Current Affairs Test engaging-as a challenge to their knowledge of the news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
...Church of the Good Thief (M.G.M.) will be a biography of Father Ambrose Hyland of the Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N.Y., whose inmates built a church for themselves within the jail walls (TIME, Sept...