Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the 18 who refused an answer was Frederic Ewen, who retired from his position as assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College rather than state his politics. He finally did admit, after Senator Ferguson reassured him that he was not incriminating himself, that he was an air-raid warden during World War II. Asked whether he had ever used an alias, another of the 18. German Professor Harry Slochower of Brooklyn College, rejoined: "Do you mean like when you go somewhere with someone? That is an embarrassing question." Pressed for a direct answer, he refused to give one. Cried...
...perfect child," he confides to one biographer, "never spoke, never cried!" But in this pose-for Beecham can assume a pose quite naturally-he would no doubt choose to forget that his student days at Oxford came to a sudden end after 18 months and that the warden of Wadham College is then reported to have said, "Mr. Beecham! Your untimely departure has perhaps spared us the necessity of asking...
...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...
Fine is a regular churchgoer (Episcopalian), vice president of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and a senior warden at his own parish, St. George's, Nanticoke. He says with true Pennsylvania candor: "As a boy, I never missed an opportunity to cut church. But when I became a judge, I felt that a judge should set a good example in his county...
Their jailers are Russian, British, French and American. The four officers occupy desks in the same office, speak German to each other, take turns being warden. Similarly, outside the troops of four nations take turns manning the ramparts; this month it is a company of Yorkshiremen...