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From the vantage point of his own cell, Hanners watched teen-age inmates wallowing in idleness, and soon got permission from enlightened Warden Edward O'Hara to start a school. Hanners cajoled books out of the Book-of-the-Month Club, 38 unmatched desks out of local schools. A born teacher, he encouraged his students to discuss everything from Plato to Shakespeare to current events...
Behind the bleak concrete walls of California's San Quentin state prison, a Death Row guard handed a brief note, signed by the warden, to the pale, heavy-browed prisoner in Cell 2455. "Dear Sir," it began...
...Death Row Prisoner Caryl Chessman still had a lot of life ahead of him. In the eight years since he read the warden's note, Convict Chessman, 38, has written four books, survived eight different execution dates, outlived the judge who sentenced him to death, and become the world's most famous prisoner, center of impassioned arguments on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week, with Chessman scheduled to die in San Quentin's green octagonal gas chamber next May 2 (execution date No. 9), the California legislature met in Sacramento in a special session called...
Other key defendant was John Ceccarelli, 33, former dog warden of North Branford, charged with fraud by a public officer. The state's case: Ceccarelli bought dogs from other wardens (again at $2-$3), sold them to Yale for $7. Accused as primary suppliers in this neat racket were the dog wardens in surrounding towns. Warrants were out against eight of them, with more expected. Wardens get a uniform $4 fee for each stray dog they destroy. Instead of killing the animals, say the police, the wardens sold them to Iannucci or Ceccarelli, reported them destroyed, and collected their...
...January, Sir Maurice Bowra. 61, warden of Wadham College, author of The Greek Experience, and acting vice chancellor, called a meeting of all "heads of colleges and permanent private halls." The meeting (36 colleges, five of them women's) went down as smoothly as a glass of old port. There was talk of Lord Salisbury, but he, it turned out, had won only a "pass" and not a "first" degree. Lord Attlee had at least been a "second," but at 77 he was getting on. Then someone mentioned the name of tall, suave Sir Oliver Franks, 55, onetime professor...