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...culminated in murder, was as guilty as the one who pulled the trigger. Thus instructed by the trial judge, a jury in Old Bailey found both Craig and Bentley guilty of murder. Craig was only sentenced to jail, because he was under 18. But for Derek Bentley, a hapless lad of 19 who has been described as "three-quarter-witted," Lord Chief Justice Goddard grimly donned the black cap to pronounce the death sentence. Since the jury had recommended mercy, many Britons expected Britain's Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, to commute Bentley's sentence...
Tryouts for lad and chorus parts in Radcliffe's "Destination Quad," this year's Drumbeats and Song production, are set for the afternoons and evenings of January 28, 29, and 30, Shirley Laiurd '53, Drumbeats Director, announced yesterday...
...tiny Ukrainian village of Kalinovka, Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of his early years as a shepherd lad and a child laborer in the Czar's coal mines...
...matadors today was a small boy of fourteen years, who survived a couple of run-ins with the bull and went on to defeat him. This brave lad possessed all the gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...
...probable successor--Thomas MacNamara--has always been hostile to both the city manager-city council and proportional representations systems. In 1938, he lad an unsuccessful attempt to separate Harvard from Cambridge because, he claimed Harvard was not paying enough to Cambridge...