Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman White also reported that the fund has received five individual gifts, including the Carpenter grant, each over one million dollars. Only one of the other four donations, from John L. Loeb '24, to establish a theatre, has been designated for a special...
...ALLEN J. LOEB Loeb Bros. TV Service Brooklyn...
Compulsion (dramatized from Meyer Levin's novel) re-enacts, exhaustively and explicitly, one of the grisliest horror stories of the century-the Loeb-Leopold murder case. Told in 20 scenes and lasting some three and a half hours, Compulsion begins just after two young homosexuals have, with long-calculated wantonness, killed a 14-year-old boy. There follow revelations of self-styled supermen who had dreamed of committing a perfect crime; of gay, violent, vicious Artie Straus (Richard Loeb) and his "superior slave," Judd Steiner (Nathan Leopold); of how imperfect a crime the two had actually committed; of their...
...companion in evil-except, in other words, for what has happened before Compulsion begins-its materials permit no inner development. Balked of psychological progression, or even moral catharsis. Compulsion can only-during its very protracted trial scene-fall back on sociological debate. For a Clarence Darrow, defending Leopold and Loeb, such debate was a lawyer's only weapon; in Compulsion, with everything already stated, it becomes a weapon for hitting the audience about three times too often over the head. So long as it is front-page stuff (with occasional editorializing). Compulsion on its own terms scores...
...with Gerald Warburg. Four years later, Mr. Warburg "remembered," and said that if we weren't able to have a feature film of Casals we should at least have a modest record of his performance for posterity. I agreed, of course, and he prevailed with the Eda K. Loeb Fund, through the Mannes College of Music, to commission me to make the little film. I fondly wish there were some way that Warburg and the Loeb Fund could get proper credit − and TIME...