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...head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove it. "This is the most extraordinary case I've ever known," said the judge. "On the one hand a full confession, and on the other an unshakable alibi." The jury, equally puzzled, could not reach...
...them have been restored; one of the few considered for eventual demolition was St. Mary Aldermanbury, probably named after the ancient alderman's court that once stood near by, and rebuilt by Wren after the Great Fire of 1666. Although the roof and furnishings were destroyed in the blitz, the walls, interior columns, some doorways and a handsomely garlanded east window remain...
...quietest New Year's Eve in recent memory. Only a few hardy souls gathered in Piccadilly Circus for the traditional singing of Auld Lang Syne. There were 162 arrests, mostly for throwing snowballs at policemen. A Daily Herald columnist discovered another social effect of the snow blitz. In mock horror, he reported that "five total strangers talked to me in the blizzard on the station platform...
After the Crimson tightened the margin to 52 to 44, the Crusader blitz blew the game wide open; in the next six minutes Holy Cross outscored the varsity 23 to 6, surging to a 25-point lead...
...over as state chairman two years ago, and Robert E. Lee, a backroom pro who heads the Denver party organization. Between them, they replaced 40% of the county chairmen, cut the average age of district captains from the 70s to the 40s, raised money for a radio and television blitz-and produced two of the most attractive candidates anywhere. They were Lawyer John Love, 45, for Governor, and Representative Peter Dominick, 47, for the Senate...