Word: suffolk
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...like inside a Long Island jail, Newsday Reporter Don Kellerman, 25, tried a risky-but sure-method of getting firsthand information. He got himself arrested on a burglary charge (TIME, Nov. 3), and while in jail gathered material for a Newsday series which touched off an investigation of the Suffolk County jail and brought Kellerman the "Distinguished Service Award" of the New York Bar Association. But Kellerman's plan also had a less desirable byproduct: he was indicted for burglary. Last week County Judge Fred Munder set aside the indictment and freed Kellerman on the grounds that "an essential...
Thomas Dorgan, Clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court, has renewed his battles against Communism with the co-introduction of a State House bill to eliminate Communists and Red-sympathizers from colleges...
...season of collegiate debating, Norfolk has compiled winning records against 13 of its 19 opponents. Besides Harvard and Oxford they include Boston University (12-1), Columbia (1-0), Clark (2-1), Connecticut (1-0), M.I.T. (8-2), Massachusetts (2-0), McGill (1-0), Princeton (1-0), Providence (1-0), Suffolk University (1-0), Williams (2-0) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
...Thomas Dorgan, clerk of Suffolk Superior Court, yesterday attacked Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, for defending the faculty's status with respect to Communism...
When Newsday's expose appeared last week, Suffolk County's prison officials clammed up, had "no comment" on the series. But this week the county board of supervisors gave a push to Newsday's expose by appointing a bipartisan committee to investigate jail conditions. In all Newsday's jubilation over a slick journalistic trick well played, there was one small worry: Reporter Kellerman was still charged with burglary. Kellerman already had his defense figured out. He contended that before he can be convicted of burglary, the police must prove he had broken into the bar with...