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...rejecting these counts, therefore, the jury hinted that it didn't believe Duane's testimony--at least not enough to convict...
Career Man. In Sydney, Australia, cops charged Robert Clifford, 39, with getting jobs at four different firms, then putting in anonymous telephone calls to notify the employers that their new man was an untrustworthy ex-convict, and collecting from each the week's pay required...
Boston voters also gave a 31,000-vote majority to Mayor John B. Hynes over Boston's former mayor and political boss, Ex-Convict James Michael Curley...
...sheriff's office intercepted a letter which advised two prisoners charged with passing a phony check: "Smear your face with rosewater, roots and salt. Then cut open a beef tongue and write the names of opposition witnesses inside and bury it, and no judge will dare to convict...
...difficult role of a girl who keeps falling in & out of love (and bed), Jeanne Grain displays both intelligence and charm. Hume Cronyn's crabbed and envious pedant is relieved by flashes of grade A academic humor, while Finlay Currie, who threw a chill into moviegoers as the convict in Great Expectations, manages to be very funny in his set piece explaining how he became a murderer...