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Died. Max O'Rell Truitt, 52, son-in-law of Senator Alben W. Barkley and father-in-law of Barkley's younger stepdaughter, solicitor for the old Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1935-37), member of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1938-41); of a stroke; in Washington...
Protective Coloration. In Lillington, N.C., defending himself at his trial for drunkenness, County Recorder's Court Solicitor Neill Ross pointed out that his accusers were doubtless misled by the fact that his face was "normally...
...real way to assure student's charities adequate funds is not to limit a student's choice, but to dramatize more clearly the tasks of each group. Few students want to give to a philanthropy described only by a publicity blurb in a solicitor's hand. To discover ways of making both solicitors and donors more aware of where their money goes will be one of the main jobs for a committee studying the problem...
...dead as any 100-year-old harlot ought to be. During the next six months, a grand jury voted 741 indictments, including three for the murder of Lawyer Patterson. The accused: Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Fuller, convicted as the triggerman, was sentenced to life in prison; County Solicitor Arch Ferrell was acquitted of complicity; Alabama's Attorney General Silas Garrett, still in office at the time of the murder, has not yet been brought to trial...
Then his cousin, a maiden lady, died, and left the bulk of her $230,000 estate to her elderly solicitor, one Frederick Harry Nye. Wintle brooded restlessly, concluded that Nye had somehow done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...