Word: warden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eccentricities are mysteriously but reliably national. Balloonists are French, bomb throwers Bulgars, weeping drinkers Polish or Russian, and anyone who keeps a lioness as a pet is certain to be British. Author Joy Adamson was born in Vienna, but years of marriage to a senior game warden in Kenya were sufficient to infect her with a Briton's daft fondness for treating animals the way other people treat children...
...century Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, and three viceroys of India (Curzon, Chelmsford, Halifax). Typically, the Fellows lean heavily to law and history. Only recently did All Souls elect its first modern scientist. Geneticist (specialty: butterflies) Edmund B. Ford, but the belated-ness of this honor fails to disturb Warden John H. A. Sparrow, a former barrister. "Is it more important to be like everyone else," he asks, "or to be like yourself...
Then last March came the case of Dale ("Cowboy") Morris, 36, serving a twelve-year sentence for manslaughter. In Parchman, Morris had behaved himself and become a trusty; he also displayed considerable interest in furthering Warden Jones's reform program. Back at Fort Smith, Ark., he told Jones, he owned a fine stud horse whose services he would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last...
...since all he wanted of the army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for transfer to Africa finally came through in 1926, Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman. Snake...
Front-Page Fare. Five hundred reporters have already arrived, clogging Jerusalem's cramped hotel space. Many of them stopped off first at the gas chambers of Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz to refresh readers' memories with the tales of such folk as Use Koch, the warden's wife accused of making lampshades of human skin...