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This was never a place of rehabilitation." In the freezing rows of three-tiered cell blocks-one called Michigan Avenue, another Broadway-Ranger Sara Conklin says (with some exaggeration), "Most prisoners died of pneumonia...
...ordeal that he and other inmates endured is not underplayed. A staff of 13 young, well-briefed Park Service rangers go deep into Rock lore: the men who came there, how they were treated and mistreated, how they lived, died and plotted escape. "Men were never sent directly to Alcatraz," Ranger Jane Rowley points out. "They always came as transfers and were considered the hardcore troublemakers, the incorrigibles...
...evening that radio attained its greatest cultural influence. Millions of children received their first exposure to classical music when they heard the background to The FBI in Peace and War (Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges), or to The Lone Ranger (Rossini's William Tell Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes), or to The Green Hornet (Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee). The Hornet and the Ranger were creations of Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, who furnished them both with similar appurtenances. The Masked Rider of the Plains had a faithful Indian companion, Tonto...
Died. Gerard Peter Kuiper, 68, astronomer and director of the unmanned Ranger lunar photographic missions that helped pinpoint landing sites for the Apollo moon shots; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. As a director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, he made a number of important discoveries, including satellites of both Uranus (1948) and Neptune (1949). When, in the early 1960s, other scientists were concerned that a spacecraft landing on the moon would sink in an ocean of dust, Kuiper correctly described the lunar surface as resembling "crunchy snow...
...school, the young Ford waited on tables in a Greek restaurant. A strapping 6 ft. 197 Ibs. when he entered college, he played center on the University of Michigan's undefeated national-championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. Along the way he worked as a summer forest ranger. His job: to hold a gun on the bears while tourists fed them...