Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut superior court last week, a jury of parents faced tall, blonde, 21-year-old Carol Paight. On an afternoon four months before, Carol had become one of a legion of transgressors who, either out of love or pity, have assumed a right that is not theirs: the right to take a human life. She had killed her cancer-riddled father...
Would the men & women summoned to form a jury have any prejudice against the girl? Would they have any sympathy? These two questions, put by defense counsel and prosecutor, were critical. The moral bewilderment of the talesmen was expressed by Mrs. Alice Leopold, a representative in Connecticut's general assembly. Did Mrs. Leopold believe it was proper to take a human life to put a person out of suffering? "I do not know," she said. Judge John A. Cornell interposed: Could she follow the judge's instructions on the law even though they were in violent disagreement with...
Arthur Valpey will be the new head coach at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, this morning's Hartford Courant reports...
...socially at the gracious, grey stucco home of Federal Judge J. Waties Waring and his Yankee wife. First, the judge's lifelong friends in Charleston's proud and starchy society had cut him cold for divorcing one of their own to marry a twice-divorced woman from Connecticut. Then the rest of white Charleston had drawn itself aloof when he ruled that Negroes were entitled to vote in South Carolina's primary elections (TIME, Aug. 23, 1948). Over the months there were loud whispers that the Warings were entertaining Negroes. But nobody was prepared for what...
Botanists have eliminated the most expensive part of the nation's hybrid corn seed business. This is the claim made for a new breed of hybrid corn which will not require "detasseling." The breed was developed by Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany, and Donald F. Jones of the Connecticut Agricultural Station, who announced their discovery today...