Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual effect of such presidential pardons is to restore a convict's civil rights, but under the law of Massachusetts, Curley had not lost his rights. Nevertheless, from somewhere at sea, 75-year-old Jim Curley sent word to Harry Truman that he was "deeply grateful...
Died. Walter Huston, whose acting of homespun character roles made him a longtime stage & screen favorite; of a heart attack, a day after celebrating his 66th birthday; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently...
...Reynolds' evidence was not strong enough to convict hyaluronidase. But it was enough to touch off more inquiries in the century's biggest piece of science detection...
...came upon two rogues'-gallery photographs of a tough-looking customer. The story with the pictures, one of a series' on public enemies by Hearst's International News Service, identified the man as William Raymond Nesbit, 50, Iowa jewel thief, murderer-by-dynamite and escaped convict. Jimmy thought the face was familiar; it looked like "Ray," a man who was living in a cave in a park not ten minutes from St. Paul's downtown...
Emboldened by the Nesbit story's success, I.N.S. tried to claim credit for the capture of another escaped convict on the "ten most wanted" list last week. He was Orba Elmer Jackson, 43, who had been serving a 25-year term for robbing a Missouri post office and brutally beating up the postmaster. When Jackson was captured on an Oregon ranch after an I.N.S. story about him appeared in the Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916), I.N.S. gave itself a cross-country pat on the back and the Portland paper crowed: OREGONIAN STORY AID TO CAPTURE. The fact...