Word: donald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors Norman Kelley and David Lloyd, Bass Baritone Donald Gramm, Sopranos Adelaide Bishop and Lorena Spence), the opera worked its way to the moon and back, picking up a Purple People Eater as it went along...
...Donald Hume, do hereby confess to the Sunday Pictorial that on the night of October 4, 1949, I murdered Stanley Setty in my flat in Finchley-road, London. I stabbed him to death while we were fighting...
With these boldfaced, blaring lines on its front page, the London Sunday Pictorial last week splashed the gaudy tale of a murderer who could talk freely about his crime. In 1950 Donald Hume was tried for the murder of a tinhorn used-car dealer named Stanley Setty. After his first trial produced a hung jury, the judge presiding at his second trial directed the jurors to find Hume not guilty of murder. Hume pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of being an accessory after the fact-he had dumped Setty's dismembered body from an airplane over the Thames...
...Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, will argue that "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner." In Emerson Hall D, J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will defend the place of "Humanities in the Age of Science...
Seniors from Lowell included W. French Anderson, Jerry A. Bell, Henry R. Breck, James A. Burke, R. D. Campbell Jr., Adam Clymer, David D. Hall, Thomas M. Harrington, Harvey A. Harris, Eric Martin, M. Donald MacLaren, Robert H. Neuman, William D. Popkin, Charles E. Rossi, George M. Rossman, David F. Silbert, and Arthur R. Steinberg...