Word: frame-up
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...tide is already turning slowly, soon Harvard's "frame-up" of Lesley will end. And when that happens, the sad Lesley "hang-up" will disappear...
...death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver-certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff an ex-con who spent 15 years preparing the frame-up to revenge himself on both judge and barrister. Enough clues turn up at the Old Bailey to fill a telephone book, and leafing through them is just as exciting...
Yesterday's award is the second Pulitzer for the 36-year-old Harvard alumnus. The first came in 1955 for a series of articles Lewis did for the Washington Evening Star about a Navy captain caught in a "security" frame...
Coming Round. The quietest people on campus were Students Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, well aware that the mob-sparked expulsion of Negro Coed Autherine Lucy* from the University of Alabama in 1956 was clinched by her charge that it was a frame-up. Last week their calm paid off. On the first day, they were each convoyed by one university official and two detectives, on the second by one detective trailing 30 feet behind, and on the third day they walked alone. By week's end, they were almost ignored...
...young state's attorney (now a Chicago circuit judge), directed the case of The People of the State of Illinois v. Roger Touhy, and won Roger Touhy's undying enmity. Through two long, sensational trials and until his death, Touhy claimed that the kidnap rap was a frame-up by the Capone gang and corrupt officials to put him away permanently. His sentence: 99 years...