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...were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil agreed that "they quite obviously were not trying to help...
Within the week newspapers were reprinting old rumors, circulated by Colorado Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson (who got Vigil his job originally), that the Smaldones were pressuring Washington to discipline their prosecutor...
...After he won the case, Vigil wrote thank-you notes to both the FBI and Justice's criminal division...
...times since, Sutherland has come to London to take up his vigil near the trains, hopeful that Wilfred will step out of one of them. When help from the R.A.F. and Scotland Yard reached a dead end, Sutherland had pictures of his son enlarged and distributed, with an offer of a reward for fruitful information. Sutherland stubbornly hangs on to the belief that his son will come back to London for another Easter holiday. "As long as I live," he vowed, "I'll be here at Easter, waiting...
...London airport, a crowd of expectant reporters and photographers and a group of doctors awaited the arrival of a transatlantic plane from New York. The object of their vigil: Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who was bringing his sick and troubled wife Vivien Leigh home from Hollywood, where she collapsed with a nervous breakdown a fortnight...