Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gloomiest U. S. repository for incurable criminals and generally considered the hardest to escape from is currently the Federal Government's Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Last week, Pennsylvania announced plans for an unique State prison which, even gloomier than Alcatraz, should be at least as inescapable...
...reservation near Harrisburg which was abandoned last year by the National Guard. Its site is Mt. Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
...club. Founded in 1815 by London yachtsmen "to promote seamanship and the improvement of sailing vessels," it has 250 members (including 19 women) who cheerfully pay 100 guineas entrance fee, 100 guineas a year, has headquarters in a turreted fortress built by Henry VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America's Cup for Britain. Furious with the Committee, King Edward reputedly summoned...
...Quentin (Warner Bros.) is an exciting and graphic investigation of the problems of prisoners and their keepers conducted with the authority which Warner Brothers have developed in the technique of sociological exposures. It is handicapped by a stenciled love story which has Jameson (Pat O'Brien), San Quentin's tough yard captain, in love with May Kennedy (Ann Sheridan), the sister of the prison's least pleasant inmate, Joe (Humphrey Bogart). However, the yard captain's sentimental dilemma does not seriously retard the drama of the changes which concrete walls make in the lives...
Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same...