Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first recorded sound (1877) was the voice of Thomas A. Edison, saying: "Mary had a little lamb." Most popular in the early days were such novelties as No News; or, What Killed the Dog and My Celebrated Liver Cure...
...murder weapon. Mary and Maggie Honey are far above such prosaity. When they dispatch their husbands it is by more subtle methods, like poisoning them with oysters or with the chopped-up whiskers of a tiger, or hitting them over the head with a frozen leg of lamb. This last method is particularly fortunate, for it subsequently allows the ladies-in a suitably festive spirit, and accompanied by two policemen-to cat the murder weapon...
...Witness Lowell Watson, of Olathe, Kans., who testified that Lamb was introduced to him as a Communist function ary, swore later that he had lied as a "result of constant and consistent coaching" by FCC staffers...
...biggest blow to the Government's case came from its star witness, prim Marie Natvig. In October Mrs. Natvig held the stand for 13 days, and under questioning by FCC Attorney Walter R. Powell Jr., told luridly and convincingly of meeting "Comrade Lamb" at a Communist Party gathering. The two discussed Communism in a Columbus, O. bistro named the Purple Cow, she swore, and ended the discussion in a hotel room, where she committed her "first act of infidelity." Three months later the grey-haired grandmother recanted. On the stand Mrs. Natvig said that she had been "brainwashed...
After hearing this, FCC Examiner Herbert Sharfman announced that he considered her testimony "completely incredible"and worthless. Last week in Washington, a federal grand jury indicted Marie Natvig on nine counts of perjury. None of them, however, had anything to do with the main issue of the Lamb case. The indictment merely charged that Mrs. Natvig had perjured herself when she 1) charged FCC Lawyer Powell with "coercing" her into lying, and 2) denied she had told the FBI that she had been...