Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this on your ax. A real cool cat from East Desperation comes wheeling up to the village school in a real crazy short, and starts to stink up the upholstery. Man, he's got life with a belt in the back. He bugs the teach and rains the warden, a real sad square: "Man, you're draggin' your rear axle in waltztime." Pretty soon the hipster is smitten with a kitten who is all the way out and talking tight. But this boy is looking for more than a ball. He's hip that half...
Stalagmight. In Liverpool, England, thieves scaled the 10-ft. wall of Walton Prison, got inside unnoticed, smashed a window and broke down a pair of 3-in. oak doors to get into the warden's office, cracked a safe, left the prison without attracting the attention of 200 jailers or disturbing the sleep of 900 prisoners...
...over an attack of pneumonia and pleurisy, returned to London with his wife after eleven weeks in Southern France. To cries of "Good old Winnie!" from an airport crowd, the onetime Prime Minister unbent for a grin and wave, bundled himself into a car flying his standard of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, drove off for more rest at his country home, Chartwell...
Solitary Refinement. In Chicago, Warden Frank Sain of the Bridewell House of Correction raised the morale of his women inmates by issuing fitted dresses, freed them of the sack dresses they have been wearing since...
...taken the first of his three daily insulin shots, worked for more than an hour at his job of clerk in the prison's master mechanic's office. Now a paunchy, balding diabetic of 53. he walked with Kidnaper Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy to the office of Warden Joseph Ragen. Said Ragen to Prisoner 9306-D : "Leopold, you and Touhy have been granted paroles." Breathed Nathan Leopold, the nation's most publicized convict: "Thank the Lord it's all over...