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...Brooklyn district attorney reopened the ten-year-old case of Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles; there was even talk of exhuming Reles' corpse. His mysterious plunge from a hotel window one day in 1941, while under police guard, blew up a perfect rap against Murder Inc.'s Executioner Albert Anastasia. William O'Dwyer was Brooklyn district attorney at the time. Anastasia went free, and still is. Last week immigration authorities arrested one of Albert's five brothers (they all jumped ship to enter the U.S.) on illegal entry charges...
Across the Wide Ohio. The Central also was smart enough to spot an able lawyer in Sangamon County's Abe Lincoln. In 1855, for $10 each, he defended 15 claims against the railroad. The following year he won its most important case-a tax suit-and collected a $5,000 fee, the biggest he ever...
...Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Abe Lincoln...
...Video Theater (Mon' 8 p.m., CBS). Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Raymond Massey...
...Your Mistakes. Murrow handles the front-page news and the editorial interpretations. But Hear It Now also has oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear...