Word: leibowitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Samuel Simon Leibowitz, 84, theatrical, quick-tongued lawyer who won the release of the "Scottsboro Boys," nine black Alabama youths convicted of raping two white women; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. The Rumanian-born lawyer won a reputation during the Prohibition era for his brilliant defense of such notorious criminals as Al Capone, the Mad Dog Killer, and the Bread Knife Murderess-he saved all but one of his 100 or so murder defendants from the electric chair. In 1933 Leibowitz, serving without a fee, took on the Scottsboro Boys, eight of whom had been sentenced to death. After...
...TERI LEIBOWITZ Chicago...
...received a four-page story from an 11-year-old kid who told us how to save ducks in nearby Pound Ridge. It was handwritten, so I was assigned to type it. And of all the weddings and obituaries I wrote up, the one I liked best was the Leibowitz Katz wedding I was given to write up after I returned from lunch. During lunch I'd finished Portnoy's Complaint...