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That announcement of sentence and execution, in letters arriving simultaneously at the A.P. and Reuters bureaus in Bonn, Germany, and at the U.P.I. office in Frankfurt, was at first dismissed as the work of a crank. The writer turned out to be more than ordinarily insistent. "I am one of...
Under glaring floodlights one chill night last week, three warders of London's Pentonville prison opened the grave of a hanged man. At midnight they reached the quicklimed corpse of Sir Roger Casement,* wrapped it in sacking, and placed it gently in a wooden coffin. Before his 1916 execution...
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Peter Lawford stars as General Alexander William Doniphan, who in 1838 refused to carry out the execution of Mormon leaders.
The New York judge who issued the criminal warrant mercifully stayed its execution "during session of the Congress." But the judge can always modify her mercy. Meanwhile, Powell has petitioned the Supreme Court for review of the libel judgment, which was upheld by New York's highest state court...
Evansville, Ind., is a quiet community of 141,543 on the Ohio River with all sorts of distinction. It is known as the "Home of Pablum" for its Mead Johnson cereal plant, and as the "Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires...