Word: lydon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This type of film may only be used for hospitals, shut-ins and educational purposes," said Frank C. Lydon, executive secretary of Allied Theaters. "Ivy does not qualify as an education exemption since it has a commercial outlook and competes with local movies...
...Fern at 123 began the varsity match by a close decision over Hank Lydon. He was followed by Dick Adams at 130, who made short work of Al Poole, pinning him after 2:40 minutes of the first period...
...Lydon came home from 21 months in the P.W. camps to find himself facing charges of "misbehaving before the enemy in such a manner as to show cowardice." Last week, in a bare, hot courtroom at Catterick barracks, Lydon heard combat officers debate his fate with civilian psychiatrists...
...prosecution: Lydon is "a coward who did not, in everyday language, have the guts to go on in these horrible circumstances...
...defense: "Whatever Lydon did ... it was not the result of a criminal mind, but something over which he had no control ... He was mentally ill." Two members of his family had had nervous breakdowns and Lydon himself is "socially inadequate," suffers from "pathological anxiety." and has a mental age of twelve. Lydon, a psychiatrist testified, should never have been sent into combat in the first place...