Word: lifer
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...bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...
Gauguin used to wail, in later years-much as a lifer's wife might wail: "I had no idea he was going to Sing Sing!" Mette Gad was a Danish civil servant's daughter, a handsome, white-skinned Juno (Gauguin favored husky women) who met her fate on a jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling...
...Still-Lifer Menocal is a banker's son, born 35 years ago in Boston. He studied art at the Boston museum art school, served as a gunner's mate on the U.S.S. Massachusetts during World War II, came to Manhattan to work as an illustrator for Conde Nast publications. Today he lives by his still lifes, painting steadily in a Manhattan studio. His style is still evolving, he says, and "lies somewhere between the subjectivity of Jean Chardin and the objectivity of Cezanne...
Acclaim from a Lifer. In the last decade, Warden Duffy has never abandoned his belief that San Quentin can rehabilitate as well as punish. He established a broad program of vocational training. He was the first warden to let prisoners listen to radios in their cells. He encouraged athletics, inaugurated a prison newspaper to which he contributed a regular column ("Facts-Not Rumors"), established the first prison chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous, let prisoners sell handiwork such as belts and wallets...
...will become a member of California's parole-fixing Adult Authority. In cleaning up San Quentin, Duffy had become one of the best-known, most admired prison administrators in U.S. penal history. But the most eloquent acclaim came from inside the walls. In the prison yard, a rheumy lifer clutched Duffy's hand and spoke out for his fellow prisoners: "God bless you, warden. You'll never know what you've done...