Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bang-Jensen's body sprawled beside a leaf-strewn bridle path, a bullet hole in his temple. Near by lay a stubby, .25-cal. automatic. In his pocket police found a farewell note addressed to his wife. The police verdict: suicide.* Said the Danish newspaper Information: "This is murder, in whatever way it happened...
...uncovered by the FBI after the lynching of Mack Charles Parker last April (TIME, Nov. 16). The grand-jury performance, said he, "was as flagrant and calculated a miscarriage of justice as I know of." The grand jury's failure to return indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will be shocked at the State of Mississippi's refusal to act," said he, when the U.S. presents its case before a federal grand jury in Biloxi next month...
...showplace farm of Herbert Clutter, set in the peaceful, prosperous, picture-book country west of Garden City, Kans. (pop. 11,000), seemed the nation's least likely setting for coldblooded, methodical murder. And the Clutter family seemed the nation's least likely victims. Herb Clutter, 48, a well-heeled wheat-grower, was just about the most prominent man in the region. He was chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations and Cooperatives, a former member of the federal Farm Credit Board, a civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Actresses Ann Todd and Angela Lansbury lead an all-British cast through an Australian murder trial in The Grey Nurse Said Nothing...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The rise and fall of Murder, Inc., The Lepke Case casts Joseph Weisman as Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. With Lloyd Bridges and Sam Jaffe, and Gossipmonger Walter Winchell playing himself...