Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman: Bow, Salter; 2, Hentges; 3, Smart; 4, Rawle; 5, Pike; 6, Konrad; 7, Van Shaik; Stroke, Alberg; coxswain, Kearney...
...Powell's reforms had little charm for Jerry Myles, 44, six-time loser (burglary), sometime poem scribbler, and the prison yard's most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...
Hostages to Burn. At guard-change time one afternoon last week, Myles and Smart directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone to lure in other staffmen, slashed one guard who resisted, locked up five stoolpigeon convicts, whipped up some 30 other inmates (total: 435) and armed them with knives and meat axes. At nightfall the warden talked one convict into helping him escape, quickly called for an attack by National Guardsmen...
Hearing about the Guard call on prison radios, Myles and Smart herded their 18 handcuffed hostages, including Prison Sociologist Walter Jones, into a pair of cell cages in the third tier. On the bars above and around the sides, the ringleaders stationed convicts with jugs of naphtha from the laundry. Their orders: at the first noise of an attack from outside, pour the naphtha on the hostages, light it. "We'll burn 'em," shrieked a convict from the wall, and Warden Powell got word from inside that they meant...
...this stage, Harvard can reject those Harvard sons who "don't measure up" in good conscience, hoping that an alumnus will not take the blow too severely. But Harvard sons are going to apply in increasing numbers, and they will be smart and well-prepared. How does an admissions Committee which "gives the benefit of the doubt" now turn down alumni sons in the future, not on the basis that they are not good enough, but that someone else is better or more deserving...