Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, long time." In the solidly unionized city of Haverhill, the I.T.U. is fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader has seized the opportunity to start a rival Haverhill paper...
...section is the most fascinating in the book. A few days after the murder, Leopold went out with his girl, and she read him Lamartine. There are other tantalizing and incongruous glimpses of Leopold's cozy Chicago background. His family called him "Babe"; his aunt was "Birdie"; Richard Loeb's mother was "Mompsie...
Perhaps the weirdest thing about the book is the reconstructed conversations with Accomplice Dickie Loeb, who, in Leopold's recollections, speaks a weirdly dated slang. It is with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom. Writes Leopold: "Dick was in high spirits . . . 'That'll be a snap. Nate. Nothing to it.' " Says Loeb to Leopold, as they are planning to collect ransom for Bobby Franks: "Hey, this is neat, Nate-hey, I'm a poet!" When headlines announce: BODY OF BOY FOUND...
...Darrow, he wrote about the lawyer's courage in taking the case: "Nay, it is more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...
This poorly written book is far less fascinating reading than Compulsion, Meyer Levin's bestselling fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb case (TIME. Nov. 12, 1956), which made Leopold "physically sick." In its own way. though, it may be more revealing...