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...Whitsun Tuesday in 1865, the Sunday-school children of an English mill-town mission named Horbury Brig, in Devonshire, were scheduled to march to church to join the children of the nearby parish in worship. As the mission's curate later told it, "Mr. Fred Knowles [a church warden] came to me at the Vicarage and asked what they were to sing on the long walk. We discussed one thing and then another and I said I would write a processional. 'You must be sharp about it,' said Mr. Knowles, 'for this is Saturday and there...
...help families who must find donors to give matched fresh blood (up to ten pints) a few hours before major surgery inside the heart (TIME, March 25), Warden Douglas Rigg of Minnesota's Stillwater State Prison made his 1,225 convicts available as volunteers to the University of Minnesota Reformatory. Both these groups-unlike most blood-bank donors, who have trouble getting free time to fit surgeons' schedules-will always...
...school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball game. Eight (Henry Fonda) is a mild-mannered, intelligent architect. Nine (Joseph Sweeney...
...study. "It was the first time in my life," says Corpier, "that anyone had done anything for me that I didn't have to pay for. It made quite an impression." What could Corpier do, he asked himself, to help somebody else? Last summer he persuaded Associate Warden T. M. Woodruff of the New Mexico state prison to let him start a course in electronics for convicts...
...said, he did not want to be sprung until he had trained at least one student to take over his course. As a matter of fact, he was not only willing to pass up future paroles; he would, if necessary, stay until his term ended in 1959 and "the warden kicks me out." Corpier had a compelling reason for such a decision: if he could prepare his students to qualify for FCC licenses, they would surely find jobs once they got out. "It's pretty hopeless for them if nobody is willing to help," said...