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HOXSIE SELLS HIS ACRES-Christopher La Farge-Coward-McCann...
EASTER SUN-Peter Neagoe-Coward McCann ($2). Story of incoherent but passionate Rumanian peasants; the garlic school of fiction...
SLOW DEATH AT GENEVA-"Diplomat" -Coward-McCann ($2). Young Dennis Tyler has to look after the victim, do his work at the Conference, chat affably with many persons, keep it all out of the papers, while he finds a murderer. And well he does it, against a convincing background of international small talk and intrigue...
...from the perverts their frippery, sent them squealing to the barber to have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden Joseph A. McCann of authority. Warden McCann's reaction was a feeble protest that, while Cleary was a "yellow rat," "Rao is the most valuable prisoner we have. Why, he's better than a deputy warden. When trouble developed, I could always go to Rao and get things quieted down...
...inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal prisons combined,* more homosexuals (200) and alcoholics (1,500) than any other U. S. penal institution. Only untimely bit in Mr. Fishman's article is the cachet he gives Warden McCann for the small number of escapes from the prison. "Such an escape record," says Mr. Fishman, "could be achieved only by a warden dog-like in his devotion...