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Bozzy's law practice prospered. Most of his cases were civil matters, but generosity and a liking for publicity prompted him to defend a succession of penniless thieves and murderers. His most notable case gives the volume a somber ending. With great eloquence, Boswell defends John Reid, who is accused of sheep stealing. The man is condemned to the gallows, apparently more because of poor reputation than any commanding weight of evidence. Boswell fights hard for a commutation but gets only a short stay of execution...
...skin as a grimy little boy gleefully obsessed with a hanging. Boswell plagues the condemned man with questions about how it feels to be condemned, chats with him of a woman who is called "half-hangit Maggie" because she survived the gibbet, and happily plans an experiment to revive Reid's corpse...
...Trib staffers, more meaningful than a routine change at the top. More than any other man at the Trib, unobtrusive, unassuming and adaptable George Cornish represented the paper's last important link with its past. Cornish's tenure spans four Tribune administrations, from the late Ogden M. Reid, who inherited the paper from his father in 1912 and ran it until his death in 1947, to John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who has been owner since...
Between Times & News. With Ogden Reid's death, the Tribune fell into decline. It was-and still is-a good newspaper, but it is caught between the towering Times (circ. 614,169) and the popular Daily News (circ. 2,026,850). In the inexperienced hands of Reid's inheritors it steadily lost position, revenue and prestige. When "Jock" Whitney's millions acquired this ailing property, the staff hopefully looked in George Cornish's direction for leadership: he was the one man who had patiently weathered all the storms between stability and decline...
...perhaps Chase Manhattan Bank's John J. McCloy or Detroit Bank & Trust Co.'s Joseph M. Dodge; for Britain, Sir Oliver Franks; for West Germany, Chancellor Adenauer's influential banker friend, Hermann Abs. Perhaps Jean Monnet would be added from France, and Escott Reid from Canada. In time, Japan might also be asked to chip in. The idea would be to commit combined large-scale capital investment to those economies, under control of an international authority independent of the donor countries...