Word: shooters
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...Your Jan. 23 article, "Shooter's Chance," like most other articles I have read concerning Mississippi, is obviously indicative of the highest type of prejudice...
...first 15 minutes, the zone defense worked fairly well, and the score was tied at 35-all. Then Penn's set shooter, Bob Brooks, hit from the outside with seven baskets, and the Quakers went ahead to a seven-point halftime lead...
What makes "Mary" especially unfortunate is that a similar combination of Hepburn, Scotland, and good music worked out fine in "The Little Minister." You get the feeling that Ford must have been pretty lost in the 16th century Scottish hills, without even a six-shooter or a cavalry troop to keep him company...
Under Mississippi's earthy and antiquated penal system, the tougher and more ruthless a convict is, the better off he is. At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as "shooter trusties," equipped with rifles and vertical stripes, and set to guarding their lesser, not so enterprising, fellows. Loyalty (i.e., shooting an escaping convict) is often rewarded with freedom...
...years of crime-which included grand larceny, cattle stealing and blasting an old man with a shotgun and then drowning him in the Mississippi-hefty, hardfisted, 33-year-old Clarence B. ("Hogjaw") Grammar was eminently qualified to be a "shooter." After he began his life term at Parchman in 1940 he demonstrated other good qualities: he beat up fellow prisoners and talked politely to the guards. When he killed a convict who was attacking a prison guard in 1947, the state gratefully released...