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Though it varies from one newspaper to another, the ban on racial identification is usually lifted only when the story 1) is favorable. 2) involves a wanted felon, or 3) would make no sense otherwise, e.g., the report of a racial clash. The result: Negroes are seldom identified when they figure in crime stories...
...have no politics," Washington Lawyer F. (for Florence) Joseph Donohue protested piously in 1951. "As a resident of the District of Columbia, I am like an alien enemy, a convicted felon or an adjudicated lunatic in that I have no vote." Last week, chumming with reporters in his new role as national campaign manager for Estes Kefauver, "Jiggs" Donohue had plenty of politics, but few worries about convictions or adjudications. Said he of his hard-campaigning candidate: "Estes is doing a really good job out there. I told him when he went...
...Manhattan, Alger Hiss, 50, reported for the last time to his parole officer. But as a convicted felon, onetime Lawyer Hiss can no longer vote, run for public office or practice...
...British subject 21 or over- unless, among other things, he or she is a lunatic, felon, traitor, clergyman, civil servant, member of the House of Lords or one of the Royal Family-may stand for election to the House of Commons. A candidate need not live in the constituency he represents (for 14 years Winston Churchill represented a constituency in Scotland), need not know much about its people or problems, theoretically need not even appear there except for the formalities of campaign time. He does need a $420 deposit, ten supporters to sign a petition, and the patience...
...documents over to the Communists while in the State Department), could scarcely find much consolation in the warden's parting words. When, as ex-Convict 19137, he walks out of Lewisburg's gate two days after Thanksgiving Day, Lawyer Hiss will greet the world as a convicted felon, practically broke, disbarred in all courts, stripped of nearly all ordinary civil rights...