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After a World War II stint in the navy, Pierre headed for a journalism career on the San Francisco Chronicle, finished college on the side, made a name for himself as a sharp investigative reporter. He deliberately got himself tossed into jails as a drunk and a vagrant, wrote a 17-part exposé on conditions that resulted in improvements in the county penal system...
AFTER THE FALL. Making his actors enter and exit like vagrant thoughts of memory, Playwright Arthur Miller tangles them in the web of man's hurt and guilt...
...become a spiritual vagrant-one of that vocal tribe of U.S. intelligentsia whose identifying marks are alienation and a search for identity. Cheever never had any doubt as to his identity. As an economic unit, he was a zero-apparently just a lost boy hanging around Boston. But his brother Fred, who was as convinced as John himself that writing was John's business in life, subsidized him with the midget sums necessary to keep him alive...
...with a pocketful of money be jailed as a vagrant? Confessed Mississippi Gambler John L. Fonte could claim no legitimate occupation, so even though he was carrying $771, he was convicted for "statutory vagrancy" under an old Tennessee law originally intended to force the idle to work at "some honest calling." Upholding Fonte's conviction, the state's supreme court ruled that "the mere possession of money is insufficient defense" and found that the ancient statute, now "directed almost exclusively at the prevention of crime," can apparently be used against some well-to-do idlers...
...younger brother, Mick (Donald Berry), has given a dilapidated old house to his brother Aston (James Leo Herlihy) so that Aston will have a job: fixing up the house. It is into the small, cluttered garret of this house--Aston's bedroom--that Aston brings a sly, slavering vagrant, Davies (Richard Shepard), for shelter...