Word: lifers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside View. In Ontario's Kingston penitentiary, a "lifer" known only as Sally announced that she would buy her fourth war bond. Said she: "In here a person gets sort of a frustrated feeling. . . . I want to see the war won just as much and as quickly...
John Alexander Hendricks, lifer, combatted wartime priorities by asking his many friends to bring him one board each. They brought enough for a stage. The inmates have plenty of uniforms to broadcast in: white shirts and orange-striped trousers for the glee club; dark trousers, cream-colored tuxedo jackets, and boutonnieres (when the prison garden is in bloom) for the orchestra...
Slow Men. In Los Angeles, 56-year-old Pickpocket Albert Lewis announced that honest toil was best, even at $5 a week, after he was arrested for the 96th time. In Missouri State Prison, 83-year-old H.O. Chenoweth, a lifer, refused to ask for a parole, held out for just "a little outside privilege, so I can go over to the river and fish." In London, relatives of 86-year-old Thomas Morrell reported him missing, believed he had probably run away...
...lifer had a technical inheritance problem, but the woman, after assailing the "non-intelligent and nefarious nature" of her confinement, went on to proclaim that "I am perfectly cognizant of my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." She has tried to escape often enough to convince her of the futility of this plan, and now wants to get out legally. One of the students will investigate her case...
...Jersey State Court of Pardons last week paroled a lifer, Negro Clinton Brewer, because during 19 years in jail he had become a musician. He had written Stampede in G Minor, a jazz tune which sold well on an Okeh record; stood to get an orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie...