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...Forger Turner, who used to be Clarence Gideon's neighbor at Florida's Raiford state prison, has been the brains (IQ 140) behind more than 100 would-be Gideonites. A onetime insurance claims adjuster, Turner picks up clients through the prison grapevine, studies their court records, and has often drawn up petitions, hand-printed by a dozen other convicts. Turner's legal skills have already forced public defenders to handle all Gideon Petitions, made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court...
...surviving defendants. The prosecutor produced a witness who testified that he had once seen Lopez trying to sell ducks at an open-air market. But the defense attorney, who had taken the trouble to investigate the story, demolished the prosecution by proving that the witness, a convicted forger, had been confined in a hospital at the time when he claimed to have seen Lopez at the market. Despite this setback, the prosecutor kept chugging along with his efforts to prove the defendants guilty...
...that it is going on under their feet as well. Platoons of men are down in the dark earth burrowing a tunnel toward the surrounding forest. Brains of the operation is Big X (Richard Attenborough), a leader of past breakouts in other camps; among his staff specialists are the Forger (Donald Pleasence) and the Scrounger (James Garner). Steve McQueen plays an American fly boy with a carhop grin who pesters guards and tests their watchfulness...
...keeps $1 for state-furnished transportation-and $2.25 a day for room and board. The remainder is divided up between the prisoner's family and a trust fund that he receives on completing his sentence. Some of North Caro lina's working prisoners: Harry Rivenbark, 57, a forger, tears down automobiles in a Raleigh junkyard...
...Boston merger was also fresh evidence that Richard E. Berlin, 67, cost-conscious president of the parent Hearst Corp., intends to strip the Hearst chain of all its weak links. Since 1951, when Chain Forger William Randolph Hearst died, Berlin has sold three Hearstpapers (Chicago's American, the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, the Detroit Times) and merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, retaining only a financial interest in the hyphenated News-Call Bulletin. At least three other Hearstpapers have been offered for sale: the Los Angeles morning Examiner and evening Herald-Express...