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Died, Walter Liggett, writer (Bawdy Boston, The Rise of Herbert Hoover), muckraking editor of the Midwest American, loud & bitter foe of Minnesota's Governor Floyd B. Olson; of bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen as he stepped out of his car; in Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder...
...Clough, the Leverett head waitress, has for some years been a regular diner at Liggett's. After work, Eliot House's chef regularly stops b HayesBickford's for his oyster stew. The Adams House kitchen is often thrown out of its stride while the cook goes out for dinner...
...stable relationship in Gloria's life was her friendship with Eddie Brunner. The relationship that finally destroyed her was her love for Weston Liggett, who met her in a speakeasy, became involved with her after Gloria had stolen his wife's mink coat. Eddie was tall, searching, goodhearted, a Stanford graduate who had become well-known as an illustrator in college, then starved in New York. Gloria turned to him when she was in trouble, which was most of the time, lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others...
...quiniet of giggle ettes frina past Leavitt's their generous forms rivalled only by the generality of their smile. A seasoned Harvardian looks up, perceives, and turns into Liggett's screne in the knowledge that less-knowing classmates are secure against such sirens, the guardian watching is over alert...
...Minneapolis grand jury last week indicted Walter Liggett, famed muckraker for Plain Talk, Common Sense, et al., now publisher of the Minneapolis MidWest American, on a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl. Muckraker Liggett's Wife Edith promptly countercharged that "Governor Floyd B. Olson's gang" was trying to "disgrace and discredit Walter by making the alleged offense as dirty and infamous as possible. . . . The prosecution of Walter is one of the foulest frame-ups ever engineered. . . . [Walter has] demanded the impeachment of the Governor on ten definite counts...