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William R. Polk '51 applied for a leave of absence yesterday--to track down the killers of his brother, radio reporter George Polk. The 19 year old sophomore will soon fly to Greece, scene of the crime...
Through the aid of the Newsmens' Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, William Polk has already raised $1,500 in cash and $6,000 in pledges of the $10,000 necessary to send himself and two others to Greece for a six-week investigation of the killing...
Three Harvard groups have already pitched in to help Polk raise the money he needs. Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, which awards a year's fellowship at Harvard to outstanding newsmen, yesterday sent a letter to all past and present Nieman Fellows urging them to support Polk's plea for funds...
Most of Tennessee trooped soberly to the polls. But in Polk County, a Democratic pocket in the Republican southeast area, Southern tempers boiled over. Three men were killed and five wounded. The National Guard had to be rushed in. When the votes were tabulated, a non-partisan Good Government League had swept the ruthless organization of ex-Sheriff Burch Biggs, longtime Crump henchman, out of office...
...transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled by mule and on foot over rugged mountain trails, always in guerrilla hands, never sure that he would not meet the same fate as Polk...