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...editors"), but Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick said that they came from material provided by the police and by Hanrahan's office. Late last week, at the request of black and white civic organizations, the Justice Department promised an investigation of the shootings, and Cook County Coroner Andrew Toman pledged a blue-ribbon inquest...
...Cook County Hospital), the first question was, "Black or white?" If the dead man happened to be Negro, the reporter would "cheap it out." As for impersonating public officials, it was accepted practice. More than one reporter telephoned the scene of a crime and barked, "Hello, this is Coroner Toman," only to be told, "That's funny, so is this...
Stories about his exploits are legend, and they grow in the telling. Romy on the telephone seems a constant source of confusion. Somehow, a homicide detective on duty at the dead nurses' apartment got the impression that he was talking to Cook County Coroner Andrew Toman, and he started spilling all the gory details of the crime-until he saw Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed...
...standard one of the most horrifying crimes in U.S. history. Even to Chicago police - inured to every form of sadistic death - the apartment presented a heartrending, stomach-turning spectacle. "In my six years as coroner, geon," and in as many years as police surgeon," said Coroner Andrew Toman, "I have never seen anything this bad. This is the crime of the century...
...this same generation-because it s so personalistic-has made civil rights its overriding issue. Currently, it takes a dim view of big talk and big organizations. "You get civil rights for breakfast, lunch and dinner," says a Princeton student. "I'm sick of it." Concrete, man-toman effort is another matter. Yalemen recently traveled all over Mississippi to register Negro voters. This fall 1,000 eager Harvard students volunteered for civil rights work-notably in the Northern Student Movement's tutorial program. Tutoring Negro children is this year's top project at campuses from Reed...