Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Haywood Patterson, 39, one of the nine famed "Scottsboro Boys," who were convicted, after one of the most sensational trials of the century, of raping two white women in a freight car; of cancer; in Southern Michigan Prison, where he was serving a 6-to-15-year term for manslaughter. Sentenced (in 1937) to 75 years in jail for his part in the Scottsboro case, Patterson escaped from an Alabama prison, fought off extradition attempts, but was sent to jail again in 1950 for stabbing a man in a barroom brawl...
Getaway. In Arlington, Va., the judge let Haywood L. Miller off with a light $15 fine for reckless driving and fleeing from highway cops at 70 m.p.h., after Miller explained: "I was out with another man's wife, and I thought that's who was chasing...
Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...
...carry on as C.I.O. president. He was unanimously re-elected for his twelfth term. Nominating Murray, bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Clothing Workers, called him "not only a labor leader but a leader of mankind." To take some of the load off Murray, Organization Director Allan Haywood was named to the new position of executive vice president...
Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, now 37, was a free man again last week. Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams refused to extradite him to Alabama, where Patterson and eight other Negroes were arrested 17 years ago on a flimsy rape charge. After that, a federal judge dismissed a fugitive warrant against him for breaking out of an Alabama jail...