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...Burton Abbott-a former accounting student who was charged with murder after his wife found the murder victim's purse in the Abbott cellar-was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his innocence. After a minute, Warden Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever...
...lying if I said I wasn't worried. You lie there on your bunk, knowing you've got cancer in your arm, and you just think. Boy, what you think about!" Why do so many volunteer so willingly? Several prisoners have given their reasons in letters to Warden Ralph Alvis. Said one: "I took a life, and the only way I can atone for that, even in a small measure, is through something like cancer research." Another: "I am just starting on a life sentence, and it doesn't look like I'll ever be able...
Something to Hope For During his first weeks on his new job, one question kept haunting Herbert Gragert, 34: Why had he ever left his pleasant position as school superintendent of Langdon, Kans. to take on such a strange assignment? Last June Warden Arthur Hoffman of Kansas State Penitentiary had persuaded him to take over the prison's faltering school for inmates; but there was no staff and the only facilities available were two small rooms in a storage area. Then one day Gragert suddenly realized that his project was a success. "You see that man over there...
...Here to Eternity) Jones. To him Lowney is an inspiring evangelist of talent who "taught me everything I know." To less favored literary aspirants whom the trigger-tempered Lowney has not hesitated to cast into the outer dark, she is an unpalatable blend of army top kick and prison warden, running a literary brainwashing machine...
Died. Bernard William Cardinal Griffin, 57, Archbishop of Westminster and leader of Great Britain's Roman Catholics, canon lawyer, active supporter and occasional stump-speaker for Labor, who served as an air-raid warden during the Battle of Britain, became the youngest cardinal on his election in 1946; of a heart attack; in New Polzeath. England...