Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prison at Joliet, Ill. He had finished his breakfast of stewed fruit, hot cereal, a cinnamon roll and coffee, taken the first of his three daily insulin shots, worked for more than an hour at his job of clerk in the prison's master mechanic's office. Now a paunchy, balding diabetic of 53. he walked with Kidnaper Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy to the office of Warden Joseph Ragen. Said Ragen to Prisoner 9306-D : "Leopold, you and Touhy have been granted paroles." Breathed Nathan Leopold, the nation's most publicized convict: "Thank the Lord...
...Rock Island railroad removed the nation's first operative lightweight train, the Talgo-type Jet Rocket, from the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run, put it to carrying commuters on the short haul between Joliet and Chicago...
Neither Rain nor Snow. In Joliet, Ill., arrested after postal inspectors found eleven bags of parcel-post packages, two cartons and two suitcases full of undelivered letters, cards, newspapers and magazines strewn over the floor of his bedroom, ex-Postman Alvin Timm explained that he had dumped the mail because he is subject to bunions and tires easily...
Your recollection of the way Ed Lahey brought one of his news stories to conclusion several years ago [Dec. 19] provokes one Lahey admirer to remember how he began one. On the day Richard Loeb was killed in Joliet Prison, 111. by a fellow inmate to whom he had ma.de an indecent proposal, Lahey began his story approximately thus: "Thrill-killer Loeb, for all his fine college education, today ended his sentence with a proposition...
...from the Sealantic Fund (John D. Rockefeller Jr.) for its theology faculty, and $4,324,200 from the Ford Foundation's great gift to U.S. colleges (TIME, Dec. 26), the University of Chicago received an estimated $15 million plus from the will of the late Louis Block, Joliet (Ill.) industrialist (Blockson Chemical Co.). The bequest is to establish the "Louis Block fund for basic research and advanced study" in the physical and biological sciences...