Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woman's Intuition. In Somersworth, N.H., Mrs. Boardman Wright Jr. dozed off during a motor trip, dreamed that she was involved in a crash, escaped injury after she awoke with a start, grabbed the wheel from her husband, causing their car to overturn...
Other correspondents are watching developments within the key state delegations. Al Wright will go to the convention from San Francisco with the California delegation. Chicago Bureau Chief Ed Heinke has been following the Michigan delegation. In addition, about 20 of TIME'S string (part-time) correspondents in the U.S. will be covering the conventions for their own newspapers and will be able to report on unusual happenings in their state delegations...
...Millard Wright had spent 15 of his 38 years in jail when, in an attempt to cure his urge to steal, he had a prefrontal lobotomy (cutting of nerve pathways in the forebrain). That was five years ago (TIME, July 14, 1947). For his possible contribution to medical science, Wright drew a light sentence, and he behaved so well that after 2½ years he was paroled. He got married, worked as a bus washer, and his lawyer and physician thought he was going straight...
...Pittsburgh last week, Wright was identified as the man who had passed some stolen articles. In his home, police found thousands of dollars worth of goods. Back in jail, Wright said simply: "With me, it just didn't work." Dr. Edward E. Mayer, Allegheny County court behavior expert, went further: in his opinion there was never any reason to believe that it would work, because a lobotomy reduces self-control...
When detectives asked Wright why he had gone back to crime, he shrugged and said: "You fellows know the questions, so you ought to know the answers." The truth was that neither the detectives nor the neurosurgeons were any nearer to knowing what makes an incurable thief, let alone how to cure...