Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the cold corridors of Michigan's maximum-security prison at Marquette last week marched a manacled man: Harold Maurice Hummel Jr. (alias Billy the Kid, alias John Dillinger), 26, on his way to Marquette's sandstone city hall to be arraigned for the murder of a fellow prisoner. Hummel's boyish face was impassive: he had little to worry about, since he was already serving a life sentence for another murder, and Michigan law forbids capital punishment. Besides, Billy the Kid Hummel had made himself a prison hero by killing Marquette's most hated inmate...
Lethal Bite. Hummel's victim was Jim Hudson, 49, a bullnecked, 200-lb. Negro who had lived by violence and could only die by it. In 1932 Hudson began serving a life sentence for the holdup-murder of a White Cloud, Mich, country storekeeper. In 1936, with a blackjack made of blue denim wrapped around small stones, he attacked five guards at the Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson. A year later he jumped three more officers in the Jackson yard. Suffering from syphilis, for which he adamantly refused treatment, he once infected a Jackson guard with the disease...
Because of Western insistence on "free, unfettered elections" and party government, Stalin arranged that the provisional government (Deputy Premier: Gomulka) should include the Polish Peasant Party and the Social Democrats as well as the Communists, but he had his men ceaselessly working to surround, isolate, blackmail, and even to murder, the democratic politicians. "Poland's secret government,'' wrote Polish Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, "is headed by a man few Poles have ever seen-the Russian general Malinov. His name has never appeared in a Polish newspaper. He has never made a public appearance in Poland...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The Art of Murder, a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe. Rex Stout would variously present...
Speaking of Murder stars Canadian Lorne Green in his first Broadway role since Prescott Proposals, which seems to be the sum total of information around about this inoffensive little thriller, we guess. Tonight, at the Plymouth, 8:30 p.m., tomorrow...