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...Best, the gnarled warden of Colorado's penitentiary, is one of the toughest in the business. He looks the part and acts it. In fact, when Hollywood did a movie called Canon City, about a big escape from his prison, they got him to play the warden. For more than 20 years, Best, a onetime cowpuncher, has run Canon City's stone prison with an iron fist. He keeps it clean, serves good food, sees to it that both guards and prisoners snap to when he shows up, deals severely with any who get out of line...
Vocational Training. In Virginia's state penitentiary, Warden Frank Smyth, who had been encouraging inmates to study practical subjects, rejected as too practical one convict's request for a course in key-making...
...Manhattan, Actress Gertrude (The King and I) Lawrence signed on for a bit-part in civil defense, got billing as air raid warden...
...this same period, during the First Revolution, that Sorokin first went to jail; five prison terms were yet to come in the 18 hectic years which followed. Of his first sentence, Sorokin comments, "The warden gave me the use of his office, and it turned out to be the safest place to keep revolutionary literature...
...Caught, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1943. Paroled in 1948, Weinberg, still on probation, drifted casually into the United Nations. Last week he drifted out again. His U.N. credentials were revoked. But many of his Lake Success acquaintances felt like the prison warden who once said: "He has a splendid brain, only it works in the wrong channels...