Word: picking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week a surgeon suggested that plastic surgery can reverse the process and make a bad man better. Dr. John F. Pick of Chicago has been testing this theory for eleven years by remolding the faces-and hence the characters, he hopes-of convicts at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary. It does not always work, Dr. Pick reports. But he assured the International College of Surgeons in Chicago that of 376 convicts released after plastic surgery, less than 1% have since got into trouble (without surgery, 17% come back for parole violations...
Among Dr. Pick's patients: a man with a broken nose and mastiff jowls, who took to crime, he said, after his young son remarked: "Daddy, you look just like a bad man. Why don't you change your face?" Dr. Pick changed his face, and daddy is now a law-abiding delicatessen dealer...
...criminal whose personality has been twisted too long by physical deformity cannot be helped by surgery, says Dr. Pick: "The reform school is the place to begin. We could hope then to stop a criminal career right at the start...
...crown was jolted further askew by Hearstling Westbrook Pegler, who dug up more ancient scandal. It was common knowledge that Rocky was a reform-school graduate, but his defenders argued that Rocky had gone right since then, and why pick on the kid? Pegler said he was later accused of: armed robbery in 1939, an assault on a 15-year-old girl in 1941. (Both charges were later dismissed...
...morning last week, the American Overseas Airlines dispatcher at LaGuardia Field telephoned Ferry Pilot Captain John Taylor at his home. Taylor had been alerted 72 hours before to pick up Washington passengers for a flight to Germany, but hadn't shown up. "Where the hell are you," said the dispatcher. Said Captain Taylor sleepily: "You better call Flushing 3-0163." The dispatcher dialed the number, found himself talking to the A.F.L. Air Line Pilots Association. Said the union: "There's a strike...