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Superintendent Nelms conceded that Louis was "not a bad boy." But he indicated that he saw nothing wrong with using a strap, and he certainly was a man with a conscience. "I spank my own children," said he, "and I'm somewhat ashamed the next morning when [the buttocks] turn blue." Cried Board Chairman George Whitman Jr.: "The state of Georgia has a law abolishing corporal punishment in prisons and on chain gangs. Do you think that this law, applying to hardened criminals, should apply to a partially blind twelve-year-old boy?" Answered Nelms: "The board has never...
...males, meanwhile, have been going through their Saturday rites of the young bulls, as blithe as you please. It is an unavoidable fact, however, that for every teaser there's an ankle strap, a taped up knee or a shoulder brace. She may be guilty, but he is no one to talk...
...style of every ankle strap and every Duke applied in the room is basically the same. The ankle wrap has really no possible variation. At Yale they put on the Duke with the player standing, at Dillon with the player lying down, but it's the same Duke. They both are intended to protect weak ligaments...
...true, is Ann's husband (Zachary Scott), but he is a weakling, and probably couldn't even uphold her shoulder strap in an argument. Four others, escaped convicts, are led by a hard-breathing type (Rodolfo Acosta) whose fondness for silk has nothing to do with its denier. Only the sixth man (Glenn Ford) can keep him from fingering the stuff, because only Ford knows the way through the jungle to safety from the agents of a revolutionary junta who are dashing in pursuit...
Frederika did not mind at all. She loved being allowed to ride on Florence streetcars, leaping up to give her seat to the elderly while she herself clung to a strap. Generally hatless, informally dressed and never too neat ("I don't believe Frederi-ka's seams were ever straight," said one teacher), the German princess seemed in many ways as American as her schoolmates. They called her "Freddy" and even "Fried Egg," and often gathered in her room to help her wrestle with the groaning accordion she sought to master...