Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold 100,000 copies in the South alone. Folsom Prison Blues, Ballad of a Teen-Age Queen-everything he turned out became a hit. And everything he composed came easily. "I write songs in the back of the car," Johnny explains, "or in hotel rooms, in planes." But "write" is the wrong word. He cannot read a note. Johnny simply picks out the tunes that arrange themselves in his head, plays them over and over till the boys know them well and can record them on tape...
...this period, Oscar Wilde wrote his Ballad of Reading Gaol. A great fan of the dandy Irishman, Gertrude could hardly bear that the author of such ethereal tales as "The Nightingale and the Rose" was in prison. Her writings show that she reacted wholeheartedly to literature; while Pembroke, by Mary Williams, made her feel soul-sick, Marius the Epicurean left her dissatisfied...
...when the judge fell ill, the second could not agree, the third found him not guilty. Finally, for the crime of illegally disposing of Setty's body, Hume pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder, and in 1950 was sentenced to twelve years in prison...
...class of any kind, the show is already approaching the ratings of later-rising Dave Garroway's Today. Its 47-state audience now includes thousands of high school students, housewives, plumbers, executives, servicemen and even 500 San Quentin cons who happily find that physics does not a prison make. One 14-year-old boy on a Colorado ranch races forth before the show to catch it on his school TV set miles away. When the show conflicted with their devotions, the sisters in a Midwest convent switched their Mass time by special permission of the Mother House...
...blond Jules-François Crahay, 41, who "merely did what I've been doing all my life." The Paris-trained son of a Belgian dressmaker, he settled at Madame Ricci's after three years of military service and five years in German prison camps had wrecked his own business in Belgium, has been designing clothes ever since. Says Crahay: "Couturiers can make a living only if the ready-to-wear buyers purchase their things; so we have to design for the woman in the street. Isn't it pleasant, after all, that you can make...