Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something to Hope For During his first weeks on his new job, one question kept haunting Herbert Gragert, 34: Why had he ever left his pleasant position as school superintendent of Langdon, Kans. to take on such a strange assignment? Last June Warden Arthur Hoffman of Kansas State Penitentiary had persuaded him to take over the prison's faltering school for inmates; but there was no staff and the only facilities available were two small rooms in a storage area. Then one day Gragert suddenly realized that his project was a success. "You see that man over there...
...Here to Eternity) Jones. To him Lowney is an inspiring evangelist of talent who "taught me everything I know." To less favored literary aspirants whom the trigger-tempered Lowney has not hesitated to cast into the outer dark, she is an unpalatable blend of army top kick and prison warden, running a literary brainwashing machine...
Died. Bernard William Cardinal Griffin, 57, Archbishop of Westminster and leader of Great Britain's Roman Catholics, canon lawyer, active supporter and occasional stump-speaker for Labor, who served as an air-raid warden during the Battle of Britain, became the youngest cardinal on his election in 1946; of a heart attack; in New Polzeath. England...
Moderate Findings. Prison officials flatly denied any willful mistreatment or brutality. Said huge, knife-scarred Deputy Warden Doyle Smith, object of many of the charges: "I've never whipped a prisoner, but you have to be boss." He was backed to the hilt by wispy, sick-looking Hubert Smith (no relation), chief warden at Rock Quarry since 1951. Declared the warden: "This leg-breaking was planned by these men to get public sympathy to bring pressure on the state to abolish this camp...
...jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home, he wars with his besotted father (Harold J. Stone); abroad, he talks with his fists...