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...victim struggled to his knees, the assailant swung back to strike again, stopped when he saw the fallen man draw a revolver. "I'm a policeman!" cried the victim. "Drop that club!" The mugger stared for a moment in astonishment, then turned and ran. The cop, Otto Hirsch, fired once into the air, shot again and nicked him in the side. In a few moments, Hirsch and fellow members of St. Louis' crack decoy squad had rounded up the mugger and three cronies...
Faced with the kind of decision that must torture the conscience of a Governor, Democrat Otto Kerner (a onetime county judge) spared the condemned man's life, changed Crump's sentence to 100 years "without parole"−a condition that some lawyers doubt that a Governor can legally impose...
...wish to point out that Winterich Studios did individual color sketches and fabricated all of the "faceted glass windows set in concrete" for the Catholic and Jewish chapels. OTTO C. WINTERICH President John W. Winterich & Assoc., Inc. Bedford, Ohio...
Nearly the entire staff of Crump's prison is marshaled behind the mounting save-Crump crusade, including the warden, the guards, the doctors, nurses, social workers and psychiatrists. Illinois Governor Otto Kerner has been besieged by requests for clemency from the likes of Billy Graham, Father Charles Dismas Clark (the "hoodlum priest"), state representatives, the former warden of San Quentin prison, the former county sheriff, a host of lawyers, sociologists and teachers. Two Chicago dailies, the American and the News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have weighed in with strong editorial support for mercy. A Chicago TV station...
Died. Roger Wolfe Kahn, 54, test pilot, bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer (Crazy Rhythm, Nobody Loves Me, Imagination), son of Millionaire Art Collector Otto Kahn, who formed his first band before the age of 17, later took up flying, got a World War II job testing the Grumman Wildcat fighter, stayed on to become a top executive for the Long Island, N.Y. planemaker; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...