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Last week, after 29 years in jail, Lifer Bradford was being considered for a pardon. In his favor: his classmates ('13) at the University of New Hampshire had just voted Maurice Bradford the alumnus who "has done most for his fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Life Story | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain complained that the mountain air at the fortress of Portalet in the Pyrenees was too cold for an old lifer like him. He was moved to the prison colony on the He d'Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Elevations | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...with lying on the stand. He told Joe: "I'm going to see that you get a new trial." But the State's Attorney's office did not agree. Joe got no new trial. Numbly, he kissed his wife and newborn son, became Convict 8356E, a lifer at Joliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Reward | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hoosegow Harmony | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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