Word: loeb
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Chicago, which has swallowed as much violence without blinking as any other big city, draws the line at child murder. Ever since Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for the fun of it back in 1924, Chicago newspapers greet any child murder with a special kind of front-page fury. It sells papers, and, in the view of editors, may also help to keep crime investigators on their toes. Last week Chicago's newspapers had another chance to show the process at work...
...source of the term "sick comedians." Chief among them is Lenny Bruce, who whines, uses four-letter words almost as often as conjunctions, talks about rape and amputees, and deserves distinction of a sort for delivering the sickest single line on record. Taking a minority view of the Leopold-Loeb case, he said: "Bobby Franks was snotty." In a class by himself is Jonathan Winters, who finds material in such experiences as being tested for inguinal hernia, enjoys discussing what it is like to be naked in front...
Robert Chapman, Director of the Loeb Drama Center, emphasized the "impact" necessary for drama. "College drama must undertake the effort to jolt theatre out of its complacency," he stated. Although the other two speakers did not follow Chapman's semi-militant tone, they agreed with his suggestion in principle...
Houghton has published poetry and prose in Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Review and other magazines. This winter a play by Mr. Houghton will be produced at the Loeb Drama Center; his work is to appear in an anthology published by Random House this fall. Miss Whitman is the Editor of the Wertheim Committee, which publishes books about Labor relations. Her poetry has appeared widely and has been recorded in part for the Harvard Vocarium Library...
This week, Long Island's Continental Industries will begin operation of an automatic cafeteria for investment bankers Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., providing a menu of 55 dishes with three choices per day, e.g., roast turkey dinner (50?) and codfish cakes, peas and carrots (45?), to 600 employees...