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Like Murderer Robert Irwin, who telephoned the Herex last year to confess the killing of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon, Suspects Kolesiak and Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men...
Decade ago the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, commonly called ''Buchmanites," were mostly youngsters at the age of puberty who were obsessed, or were told that they ought to be obsessed, with personal, private sin. Prime Buchmanite teaching was that such sin could be purged by...
Four deaths in 40 days were too many even in 1901. The police took Nurse Toppan. In her confession she said she had murdered "for the fun of it." At the insane asylum she became a model inmate, but at first they had to put her in a strait jacket...
The State's star witness against Defendant Carroll was Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M...
Of unusual interest, therefore, was the publication last week of a book by Dr. Lowell called What a University President Has Learned.* Lowell fans who may have expected a penitent confession and prophetic insight distilled from his ordeal by fire were, however, disappointed. Dr. Lowell at 81 still thinks, for...