Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died in 1947. Dr. Gibson went on living in what was now 'Lizzie Ayres's house. Within two months, the 71-year-old spinster made him her sole heir, named him co-executor of her estate-and thus set the scene for one of the oddest courtroom cases in Connecticut history...
...Races. Last week, Donald Gibson, 50, looking like a puffy Clifton Webb, sat in a Bridgeport courtroom charged with manslaughter by negligence in the death of Lizzie Ayres. The state knew that it had a weak case, but the witnesses paraded to the stand and told amazing stories...
...judgment against three others. The players, all from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., had admitted accepting an offer of $500 apiece for throwing a Madison Square Garden game. But this time all got off with suspended sentences. The real culprits, according to Judge Streit, were not present in his courtroom...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...
Allen A. Zoll, Executive Vice-President of the National Council for American Education and publisher of the "Reducator Lists," will be the featured speaker at this evening's Law School Forum. The debate will take place in Langdell Courtroom...