Word: columbus
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Died. William Edward Leahy, 69, Washington lawyer and civic leader, longtime (since 1932) president of Washington's Columbus University Law School, sometime (1925, 1947) special assistant to U.S. attorney generals; of a heart attack; in Washington. Leahy's clients included: Bigtime Mobsters Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, Federal Judge Martin T. Manton...
...Eliot and China Grove; North Dakota: Vincent R. Larson of Adams and Minot; Ohio: Bruce Finnie of East Cleveland; Gerald E. P. Gillespie of Kirkland and East Cleveland; Warren B. Harshman of Kirkland and Cincinnati; Harmon E. Kirby of Leverett and Hamilton; Charles S. La Monte of Dunster and Columbus; Alan L. Lebowitz of Lowell and Youngstown; and Taylor J. Smith of Lowell and Avon...
Also named were Marvin Wall, reporter for the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger, which won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize; William Worthy, correspondent for Afro-American and CBS; and Lawson M. Wright, a reporter on the Richmond Times-Dispatch...
...Columbus, Ohio arena, aging (42) Joe Louis, once the best boxer in the world but now paunchy and flabby, won his 15th straight wrestling match in a spiritless grapple ending with two phony uppercuts and a headlock. Waiting for Joe in his dressing room were two feds. They presented papers to take away Joe's $400 purse for deduction from his strangling $1,210,789 income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Mumbled Louis: "This kinda thing gonna follow me all around?" Then he stuffed the notice of levy in his suitcase and slowly began to put on his pants...
...Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, long noted as the place where O. Henry blossomed as a writer,*and the scene of a 1930 fire that killed 320 inmates, won favorable attention not long ago for the prisoners' willingness to volunteer for tularemia (rabbit fever) experiments and to donate skin for victims of severe burns...