Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the open prison door they found a fat Sternist with thin red hair, lazily cracking fried watermelon seeds between his teeth. When a prison warden barred their entrance, the journalists appealed to the Sternist. He ushered them in and rounded up some fellow prisoners for a press conference. Prison guards fretfully pleaded that this was against regulations. Some prisoners crossed the square and returned with bottles of cold beer for their friends; they used the handle of the jail door as a bottle opener...
Battling O'Donnell for the wingback berth are two of the most colorful runners on the squad: Hal Moffle and Dave Warden. Both men have a deceptive, disjointed style that baffles enemy tacklers. Warden, a member of the 1947 Freshman team, won a spot on the Varsity by his performances in Saturday game-scrimmage this fall. Nick Athans is also expected to see action at wingback tomorrow against the Lions...
Newcomer Scott Brady (brother of Cinemactor Lawrence Tierney), who plays the most redeemable of the fugitives, has a likely future on the screen, and Mabel Paige is fine as the very frightened, very brave old woman who conks the deadliest character (well played by Jeff Corey). Warden Roy Best is unaffected and unembarrassed as Warden Roy Best...
...chance to many a deserving man; he has added several hundred ex-convicts to B. & B.'s payroll of 5,200. He also remembers other prison hands: one of his top wartime employees (chief of maintenance for B. & B.'s half-dozen plants) was an ex-warden who bossed him around at Leavenworth...
Read Them & Laugh. The letter read: "Don't you think it is about time you gave a sermon to your flock about the disgraceful scandal mongering and backbiting by members of your church, especially your warden's wife. She has not a good word for anybody who does not fall with her. She should remember that she is ... at best only a washerwoman and not too clean at that. She thinks she and her poor half-witted man own the church. . . . You poor mutt. . . . You [and your wife] are a bright couple of spiving gluttons...