Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changed man. You won't have any trouble from me," said affable Bank Robber Theodore (Teddy) Green, 41, to Federal Prisons Director James Bennett, after an unsuccessful 1955 breakout attempt from a Massachusetts penitentiary* had led to his transfer to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Last week a report sent by Bennett to Attorney General Herbert Brownell showed that Green has not changed at all: he had been caught organizing a major escape from The Rock. In the prison's history there have been only eleven major escape attempts, none successful...
Alcatraz screws, tipped off, found that Green and at least two other convicts had hidden escape tools in compartments chipped in the bottom of toilet basins. Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts. Remarking on the careful preparation, Bennett recalled Green's earnest promise of two years before. "All the time he was talking to me," said Bennett, "he was probably planning his next blast-out attempt...
Courtly, patrician Louis St. Laurent rode a campaign train west from Ottawa last week to seek a sixth consecutive term for the Liberal government he has headed for nine years. When the train reached the hustings on the green-touched prairies, out bounded a lovable character rarely seen since the last election: not the remote Prime Minister but "Uncle Louis," the politician...
...mental retardation) early enough to begin effective treatment with diet or drugs, the College of Medical Evangelists and Los Angeles City Health Department began a routine test for all infants taken to a child clinic. A drop of ferric chloride is applied to a diaper; if the urine turns green, the child has the disease. Hope is that physicians generally will adopt the simple test. ¶Cleveland Clinic researchers headed by Dr. Irvine H. Page (TIME. Oct. 31, 1955) reported a chemical victory that may lead to better understanding and treatment of high blood pressure. They have synthesized angiotonin...
Meanwhile, the Dartmouth freshmen pinned an 18-2 defeat on the Yardlings. Starter Dave Kipp was shelled from the mound early by the heavy-hitting Green batsmen, and his successors, Bill Cunningham and Jim Dineen, had little more success in stemming the tide...