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These names are deliberately transparent pseudonyms for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, in this fictionalized account by Novelist Meyer Levin of what he calls the "crime of our century." The real victim of Leopold and Loeb was 14-year-old Bobby Franks, and the dropped glasses gave them away. Only a brilliant defense by famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow saved them from hanging...
Brats or Geniuses? Many have asked their whys of the Leopold-Loeb crime, and given answers ranging from "spoiled brats" to diabolic possession. Levin, who was an undergraduate contemporary of Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago in 1924, has offered a new version after 32 years' thought and a two-hour conversation with Leopold...
There was no excuse for the crime. Leopold and Loeb were the sons of millionaires. They lacked nothing. They were brilliant students in law, science and languages; Leopold had a rating as "genius" in intelligence tests. Life offered them everything-and what it gave them was a 99-year-plus-life sentence in Illinois prisons. Loeb died in prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works...
Also John N. Loeb of Kirkland House, Chemistry; Dale A. McNeill of Dunster House, Physics; Donald J. Marcuse of Eliot House, Fine Arts; Warren J. Plath of Adams House, Linguistics; David B. Shillman of Eliot House, Classics; Richard J. Steckel of Winthrop House, Biochemical Sciences; Julian P. Webb of Dunster House, Physics; David S. Wiesen of Lowell House, Classics...
...Professor of Biological Chemistry, Garrett Birkhoff '32, Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Alexander Forbes '04, Professor of Physiology, emeritus, Albert B. Hastings, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry, Eugene M. Landis, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Joseph L. Walsh '16, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, Isidor I. Rabi, Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics...