Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiends! ". . . The only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder" [TIME, July...
...handmade at Harvard. In 1850, speaking of Professor John White Webster, who was convicted and hanged, Harvard's President Jared Sparks said: "Our professors do not often commit murder...
Under banner headlines, the press of Baltimore pitched into a murder story from nearby Aberdeen. An 18-year-old girl had been strangled by her former fiancé, who drove around for hours with her body in his car while he was getting up the nerve to shoot himself. Half an hour after Hearst's News-Post went to press, the man changed his story in one important detail: he had actually killed the girl while they were inside the Baltimore city limits. That brought the murder case within the range of the state courts in Baltimore...
...broadcasting a U.P. bulletin about a murder confession, five radio stations last month were cited for contempt. The Maryland Press Association is fighting a proposal by the Maryland Court of Appeals to extend Rule 904 throughout the state. Protested the Washington Post: "The effect is to cloak the conduct of the police in secrecy and deprive the whole public of information...
...readers. He seems to be saying that Scobie-though, God knows, no saint-is in reality a very likable, perhaps admirable, and probably forgivable sinner. And the implicit sympathy with which Author Greene watches his "hero" plod doggedly from one crime to the inevitable next-adultery, sacrilege, murder and suicide-seems to show that Greene is on Scobie's side. He is certainly in Scobie's corner (he is his handler); but he is not necessarily on Scobie's side (he is not his manager...