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Died. James A. (for Aloysius) Johnston, 79, longtime (1934-48) warden of Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly...
...Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises him with her apron strings. This may make Love Is Eternal the ideal woman's home companion, but scarcely good history. In the main, Author Stone rushes about in his chosen role of literary fire warden, stamping out the flame of another great personality...
...buying up all the best ballplayers, tried a new talent-grabbing trick. Yankee scouts spotted Billy Joe Moore, 24, playing first base for the Oklahoma State Prison team. Though Moore, doing a seven-year stretch for burglary, is not due for release until next year, the Yanks talked the warden and the parole board into sending him to Grand Forks, N. Dak. to play minor league ball. If Moore stays out of trouble, said Yankee Scout Tom Greenwade (discoverer of Mickey Mantle), by next year he'll be playing Triple A ball...
Died. Roy Best, 54, keg-shaped, iron-fisted,warden of Colorado's Canon City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
Essentially the problems which face Bard today are the same as those which faced Cannon Bernard Iddings Bell, the last Warden of St. Stephen's College, and which brought him to work for a union of the college with Columbia. "We believe," he said, "the day of the small college, independent of the university, definitely to be over. Some of the well-endowed and fashionable ones may go on living for years, decades, but they will be fewer and fewer and eventually even the wealthiest of them are likely to disappear...