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After the second bankruptcy, B. & O. General Solicitor Cassius Clay (an ex-RFC lawyer), resigned in disgust, was joined by another B. & O. lawyer. Said 'lay after he quit: the loans were a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up" and a "fraud." The bankruptcy, said the Tobey report, did more than postpone payment of the loan. It enabled the railroad to convert the notes held by RFC into non-salable bonds, hence left RFC with a frozen loan rather than a live claim on the B. & O.'s assets. Once converted, RFC's collateral Dehind its loans...
...defendants got sentences of from two to 15 years, but East and West Germans, thanks to Perscheid and Friedenau, got a detailed picture of the dress rehearsal for the frame...
With the groundwork laid for schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...
Actors' Studio (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Ring Lardner's A Frame...
...down from the stand, the fifth Communist to be jailed for contempt in the eight-month conspiracy trial of eleven of the nation's top Reds. Outside the courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square, Communist pickets dutifully picked up the new refrain: "Free Carl Winter. Stop this frame-up." Within minutes, placards appeared, with Winter's name neatly lettered...