Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he had learned Irene from his Uncle Terrell, just before he was sent to the penitentiary in Texas for murder in 1918. Adding verses as they came to him, Lead Belly made Irene a prison favorite. Five years after he got out of the Texas jail on a pardon, he bounced into Louisiana's state prison farm for assault with intent to kill, and sweet Irene went right along with...
Then, as Shephard struggled to hold down a porter's job in a bar & grill, a friendly New York Timesman named Joseph Haff helped him organize his third plea. Last week, 15 years after the first arrest, New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll signed a full pardon, and another would probably be available soon for Betty Lester, since enfeebled by a stroke. Sixty-four-year-old Cliff Shephard, tearfully pleased with the final triumph of justice, laid aside his broom and towel, thanked the State for excusing the crimes he had never committed...
French actress Paula Dehelly may "dub" [French dialogue] for Bergman, Hepburn, et al. [TIME, May 8], but you were wrong to include Merle Oberon. I recently completed an on-the-set writing assignment for a made-in-France film (Pardon My French) starring Miss Oberon-a double-version with each scene shot first in English and then in French-and I can vouch for Miss Oberon's mellifluent rendition of my English speeches in French translation...
Boston's ex-Mayor and ex-Congressman James M. Curley, setting out on a seven-week Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, received a nice going-away present. As he boarded the liner Italia last week, the announcement came that the President had granted him a "full and unconditional" pardon of two convictions for which he had served jail time. The pardon covered convictions for 1) fraudulently taking a letter-carrier examination for a friend in 1903 (60 days in jail), and 2) mail fraud in mulcting $60,000 from clients on the promise of getting them Government contracts...
Best for Her Business. Millions of moviegoers know the story of Joe Majczek: how, in 1944, Chicago Times Reporter James McGuire got wind of the story, dug out the record and proved to a pardon board's satisfaction that Joe was innocent (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945 et seq.). Joe went free, and his case was made into the movie Call Northside 777. But what of Teddy Marcinkiewicz...