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...Conner family of the Midwest city of Green Prairie represent the new Wylie ideal. Father Conner is a sturdy sector warden who has kept his faith in C.D. throughout the dull years of cold war. So have his worthy wife and their sons Ted (a radio ham) and Chuck (an architect serving in Air Force intelligence). But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry. Trouble is that Lenore is faced with the prospect...
...Mexican consul in Kansas City, Mo. during President Venustiano Carranza's time [1917-1920], it was my duty to talk with every Mexican in the state penitentiary and secure pardons for in nocent ones who did not have interpreters at their trials. I found one man whom the warden had no record of, but who had been in prison (working in coal mines) for over five years. Investigation proved that he merely accompanied a convicted friend from the mines at Joplin to bid him goodbye at the penitentiary gate. As he walked in, the gates closed. They...
Best actor: Burt Lancaster, for his role as Sergeant Warden, in From Here to Eternity...
...exposing legislative graft in Michigan. Last July, McCormick picked another story he thought promising. He went to the State Prison of Southern Michigan to talk to a convict who had written the Free Press that he was innocent. McCormick was skeptical of the prisoner's story, remarked to Warden William Bannan that he had talked to more than 50 convicts who said they were innocent, but that not a one had ever convinced him. The warden agreed, but added: "There's one man in prison who has convinced me he's innocent. He's Willie Galloway...
...ASHBY WARDEN HARDY Craig, Mont...