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...convicts were on their honor. Near by, the African prisoners swung into a haunting Silent Night, And on the fringes of the crowd, snatching bits of paper streamers and begging slices of watermelon, were scores of ragged black children who had not been invited. "Next year," promised a prison warder as he watched them, "we'll make it a multiracial party...
Capt. Richard T. Spofford, professor of Naval Sciences, will welcome the assembled guests, and Col. DeVere Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, will administer the oath of office at the joint ceremonies. The main speaker will be Rear Admiral F.B. Warder, Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet...
...records the atmosphere, the emotions, the tensions of convicts and gaolers as execution nears. But, in Behan's play, as atmospheric pressure mounts, the need for outlets intensifies. Voices are raised, and fists; a half-brutal, half-compulsive humor dominates; the hangman gets drunk; officials get edgy; one warder carries out his job, but in a cold sweat of horror and guilt...
There are comic scenes that approach the .best in Sean O'Casey, as when a shrewd old lag with a game leg solicits a massage from a warder in order to get drunk on rubbing alcohol. "Which leg is it?" asks the warder. "To be on the safe side," says Convict Dunlavin, "you'd have to do two of them. It's only the mercy of God I'm not a centipede, sir ... Ah, that's massive, sir. 'Tis you that has the healing hand." The warder turns, and Dunlavin sneaks a great swig...
Just Pals. In Wellington, New Zealand, ex-Warder John Hall of Witako Prison got a six-month sentence after police found that he had given three prisoners five nights of liberty in one month, even lent one prisoner his bicycle to visit a girl friend...