Word: lifers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...first volunteer ever to receive leukemia blood, a lifer in Sing Sing (later paroled) exchanged 18 pints in a series of transfusions with an eight-year-old girl (TIME, June 13, 1949), had no ill effects...
...England, searched back issues of The New Yorker and TIME, followed Li'l Abner for months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about the real McCoy (from the real Macao-the uncut heroin smuggled in from the Portuguese island colony of Macao...