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...years, Robert F. Stroud became a renowned authority on the diseases of birds, and produced an exhaustive book on the subject. He also wrote a mammoth study of the federal penal system. He did both while serving the longest term in solitary confinement in U.S. prison history at Leavenworth and Alcatraz, as the convicted murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Solitary Rebel | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...ROGER S. LEAVENWORTH Grand Rapids, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...only known brush with higher education at the University of Hawaii, was obliged to resign from the army in 1943 "for the good of the service." His most notable accomplishments since: a two-year stretch in the Philippines' New Bilibid Prison and a four-year sentence to Leavenworth-both for passing bad checks. In between, he had acted as genealogy columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser under the byline of High Chief Kapiikauinamoku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: Hawaiian Fairy Tale | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Trujillo Jr., 32, one of Trujillo's four acknowledged offspring. A polo-loving playboy, his main claim to fame until now was flunking out of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth while AWOL in pursuit (despite a wife and six children) of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (to whom he gave a $5,500 Mercedes-Benz, a $17,000 chinchilla coat). Commissioned by Daddy as an army colonel at the age of three and promoted to brigadier general at nine, Ramfis has little in his record to suggest the tenacity and talent needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: End of the Dictator | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...officers go eye-popping pinup pictures of bosom and thigh, twelve pages of colored comics, and a news emphasis on murder, rape and other G.I. crimes. "It depresses me to read that paper." said one jaded subscriber. "Man, everybody in it is either dead or dying or going to Leavenworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The G.l.'s Friend | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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