Word: jailbirds
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HUNGARY-Two cliques vied for Moscow favor after the war. Neither risked leaving the country when the Cominform was set up: little shots went instead. One clique was led by bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi, now 62, Soviet-trained and a seasoned jailbird. The other was led by Laszlo Rajk (rhymes with yoick), boss of underground Hungarian Reds during Nazi occupation. Two years later, Rajk was ousted from the party, "confessed" to being a spy, traitor and informer, and to plotting with Tito to overthrow the Communist regime. Disposition: hanged. Now boss: Rakosi...
Warren Lee Irwin was a fellow with a screw loose in his head. He stole, lusted continuously after women, and was inclined to kill people who stood in the way of his scheme of things. At 27 he was a hardened jailbird. In the 13 months since getting out on parole (from Michigan sentences as an habitual criminal), he was believed to have murdered one woman, kidnaped another, and to have killed a Michigan gas-station attendant...
...Keefe. Lizabeth's determined nobility, especially when given a legitimate chance to send Jane back to prison, is something that neither the script nor Actress Scott can make believable. Moviegoers may take some comfort in Actress Greer's able performance as a bitter, man-hungry jailbird with a craving for respectability...
Died. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 45, who pursued a sordid international course as Communist revolutionary, San Quentin jailbird, roving OGPU agent and fugitive, then told all in 1941's bestselling Out of the Night; of pneumonia; in Chestertown, Md. After barely escaping deportation, German-born Author Krebs served as a combat soldier in the Pacific, became a U.S. citizen and president of a Chestertown P.T.A...
...course the candidates have favorite theories about their opponents. Both McDonough and Hynes call Curley a jailbird and point out that he's too old to do a good job. The two, also, call each other some names: Hynes accuses McDonough of being a young Curley while McDonough thinks that Hynes is actually backed by Curley to defeat McDonough. Curley calls Hynes a fusion candidate, a political dupe of the Republicans on Beacon Hill...