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...courage in taking the case: "Nay, it is more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...
Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...
...Hervey s, the trip to the mainland was a 63-hour nightmare. The convicts, brutalized by life on Isabela, tore through the yacht with savage greed. They gorged themselves, fouled the cabins, stole everything they could find from cash to toothbrushes. Only after one of the wild-eyed escapees broke into the Herveys' cabin was a semblance of order restored. A young convict called a ship's meeting, delivered a ringing oration pledging that he and his comrades would mend their ways if their escape succeeded. He got his fellow convicts to sing Ecuador's national anthem...
...Punta Galera, 100 miles from the Colombia border, the young convict embraced the Herveys, kissed their hands in gratitude, then rode ashore with his friends and their loot in Valinda's launch. When they were gone, the yacht headed north to Panama. By week's end, Isabela's commandant reported that order had been restored. And, on the Ecuadorian mainland, ten of the Valinda's fugitive passengers were rounded...
Look at the Facts. Previous efforts to convict RCA have had little luck, and a grand jury investigation of RCA affairs was quashed in 1952 by Democratic Attorney General James P. McGranery. But Republican Attorney General William Rogers' decision to go after RCA with a criminal indictment was undoubtedly encouraged by RCA's $10 million out-of-court settlement with Zenith, when it got a look at the facts Zenith had collected to support its charges of monopoly...