Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone could have seen it coming. No man could stare so intently at the world and himself and his fellow-men for long and not be shattered by the experience...
Recaptured after his second escape from Mississippi's prison farm at Parchman, lanky ex-Robber William Frank Moody became a model prisoner. At 22, he busied himself with a correspondence course in radio repair, was soon earning pin money in the pen by fixing radios for fellow prisoners. Because his whole attitude suggested reformation, Bill was allowed to wear the vertical striped trousers of a trusty...
...Tammany Hall could award the next Nobel Prize for literature, it might well choose Scotsman Bruce Marshall. Novelist Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle, Vespers in Vienna) cannily laces his fiction with all the flourishes of the practicing ward heeler. He is always for the little fellow, cries out loudly against the interests, roots piously for religion, winks broadly at the moral delinquencies of the unfortunate...
...later he learns that the lovely little girl he befriended has become a prostitute. Novelist Marshall never lets the abbe get too far away from a good-looker. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish refugee whom he tries to help is executed by the resistance. Many of his fellow priests are theological hypocrites who do him dirt at every turn, and when blindness threatens, his simple confidence in a miracle cure at Lourdes is disappointed...
Mavrides was reported "unmanageable" at the State Prison last week due to an acute form of paranoia which has caused him to curse officials and fellow prisoners without cause. According to prison officials, he complained of being "needled" by other inmates and has adopted an attitude of "suspicion and evasion." He is serving a sentence of from four to five years...