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...either us or Satan. . . .") or a similar melody by the 26-inmate glee club. There are selections by a 22-piece orchestra, which sometimes tackles a Rachmaninoff prelude "in the style of the San Quentin Orchestra." There are vocals by prison songbirds; a short speech by smart, humane Warden Clinton Duffy; a few words, for instance, from the inmate who has donated the most blood to the San Quentin blood bank...
Clink Concerto. In its first two years San Quentin (Mutual, 7:30 p.m., Tues., P.W.T.) has become reasonably professional and picked up thousands of loyal listeners. It is the first prison show to go coast-to-coast. When Warden Duffy and Mutual's Pacific Coast affiliate, the Don Lee Network, first agreed to give the program a try, two years ago, San Quentin wags referred to the broadcast as "Concerto in the Clink." One inmate, looking over the crowd at the first broadcast in the prison mess hall, observed: "Those boys are lucky. This is one audience that...
...senior warden of Hyde Park's St. James Episcopal Church was accused of using the Holy Bible to promote his political ambitions...
Died. Robert John Kirby, 54, warden of Sing Sing, like his predecessor, Lewis E. Lawes, an opponent of capital punishment; of pneumonia; in Ossining...
...pious forebears in Germany and Russia, they are hard-working and puritanical (cards and dancing are frowned on). But they long ago flagged and climbed aboard the U.S. train. Their German religion has given way to Congregationalism. Few of the young generation can speak a German word. Whenever a Warden boy leaves for the war there is a typical American party (coffee, food, Farmer in the Dell, Drop the Handkerchief) in the school basement. Their Americanization is ably abetted by the high-school faculty, which puts great emphasis on the history of the U.S. and the State of Washington...