Word: lynchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...focuses on two days in a Southern town where "an arrogant, hard-headed . . . independent Negro" named Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is accused of shooting a white man in the back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...
Probable varsity lineups: HARVARD BU Rockwell (13) F (23) Lynch Hickey (12) F (24) Carson Smith (32) C (12) Finnegan Gabler (14) G (10) Rickson Murphy (33) G (22) Sheehan
...Hollywood's version of The Lost Weekend, it was the dubbed-in songs of Theodora Lynch Getty that drove the dipsomaniac hero to drink. Last week, tall, easygoing Singer Theodora Getty, 30, wife of Oilman J. Paul Getty and granddaughter of Chicago's late, famed Clothier Henry C. Lytton, was trying to drive all Hollywood to drink something else-pure Hereford water from Deaf Smith County, Texas...
Cambridge, which votes on a preferential ballot elected its Councilmen in the following order: Edward A. Crane '35, Hyman Bill, Joseph A. DeGuglielino '29, John D. Lynch, W. Donnison Swan '17, Thomas M. McNamara, Edward J. Sullivan, John J. Foley, and Higley. Running touth and eased out of his seat was Francis L. Sennot...
...Surrender. Hotheads along the riverbank cried that the ground had been "salted," began talking wildly of seeking someone to lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began...