Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...associate professor in Boston University's department of Latin American studies and a wartime OSS man, testified before Senator William Jenner in Boston. Though he insisted that he had not at any time committed espionage, he refused to say whether he had ever been a member of Elizabeth Bentley's spy ring or whether he had ever known Alger Hiss, William Remington or John Abt. Professor Halperin did say: "At no time and in no way whatsoever have I tried to influence the political, philosophical or social thinking of my students...
...less than seven hours of Spillane-like night duty, Manhattan Detective Walter C. Bentley 1) was attacked by an assault suspect, who slugged him with a 5-ft. iron pipe, 2) carefully shot his attacker in the right knee with his service revolver, 3) took his prisoner to the station house and was then treated at St. Luke's Hospital for bruises of both shoulders, 4) reported back to duty, 5) jumped into the Hudson River in near-freezing temperature and rescued a drowning man, 6) retired to a hospital again to have a gash in his leg stitched...
...denying he was a Communist, William W. Remington, handsome, 35-year-old ex-economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce, was sentenced to serve three years in prison for perjury. At almost the same time last week, it was announced that Remington's accuser, onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, had been appointed to the faculty of the College of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic girls' school at Grand Coteau...
When the clock hands crept toward 9, men bared their heads, and the crowd broke into Abide with Me and the 23rd Psalm. As shop shutters rumbled open and milk bottles clinked in the streets of London, Derek Bentley went to the gallows. Within minutes the prison gates opened with a clang, and a warder emerged with the traditional black-framed notice board: "The judgment of death was this day executed ..." The crowd surged forward with an angry roar; someone smashed the notice board. After half an hour's scuffling, the police-using only their fists-were able...
...dives off Tottenham Court Road and in Soho, in back alleys of the East End, in the slums of Glasgow and Liverpool-all the places where British criminals gather-there was no misunderstanding. They knew well what Derek Bentley's execution meant...