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Path to the Pokey. Liebler asked that she be held in $25,000 bail-to keep her from scampering back to Europe. "To give you a small idea of the wealth that surrounds this girl," said the D.A., "she has a small fortune in jewelry in Zurich, cash in Paris, and an Alfa Romeo car worth $8,000 in Rome. Why, she paid her Italian chauffeur $600 a month...
...argue the point-it was his impression that Diane was engaged to a rich Continental, now in the U.S. But she went off to the Women's House of Detention anyhow, thereby reproving the district attorney's old saw: the primrose path leads but to the pokey. Diane's case seemed to suggest, however, that a girl could pick up a lot of mink and diamonds...
...morning last week a small grey limousine drove out of Paris' Santé Prison, bearing to freedom the chubby onetime pastry cook who is acting secretary general of France's Communist Party, the second largest in Western Europe. Jacques Duclos, who had been in the pokey for nearly five weeks on a conspiracy charge, listened happily to the cheers of some 50 friends, admirers and fellow troublemakers gathered outside. The car stopped; Mme. Duclos rushed up, bussed her husband soundly on both cheeks, handed him a bunch of red gladiolas and got in beside him. Then the grey...
...monologue was inspired by the fact that one Sidney M. Levy, a fast-talking $75-a-week textile salesman had just been thrown into the pokey for swindling several victims out of $45,000 in a phony nylon deal. Sidney had been ungentlemanly enough to say that he had blown most of the swag on Rosemary, and Rosemary was afraid this was leading to a ghastly, ghastly misunderstanding. She considered Levy a "creep," she cried in tones of outraged virtue, and also a "congenital idiot." Her relations with him, she added firmly, had been only platonic. Then Rosemary poured...
...well-run penitentiary, even if the prisoners seemed to run most of it themselves. Or, certainly, so Psychologist Donald Wilson remembers it from his three-year stint there as an investigator for the U.S. Public Health Service. In those days, Fort Leavenworth was the Government's No. 1 pokey for narcotics-law violators,* and Wilson's job was to study the relationship between drug addiction and crime in general...