Dr Branch Cited At MU For Research
Dr Edgar M Branch of Miami University is named a research professor, the fourth current faculty member to hold the title. He has led the English department and authored works on James T Farrell and Mark Twain, including The Literary Apprenticeship of Mark Twain and James T Farrell Writings 1921 57.
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Dr. Branch
Oxford
Edgar M. Branch
Miami University
Miami
Walter E Havighurst
John Robert Harrison
Howard L. Ritter
Warren S. Thompson
Scripps Foundation
William E. Smith
McGuffey Museum
James T. Farrell
Mark Twain
Spiro Peterson
Muscatine
11 Years On Death Row Condemned Man Writes Poetry
Edgar Labat, in death cell No. 6 at Angola, has waited 11 years for execution after an all white jury convicted him in 1953 of rape. He writes poetry to ease his burden while his appeals, including eight stays, persist. Labat, once a New Orleans hospital orderly, questions justice as he endures isolation and a looming death sentence.
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Angola
Edgar Labat
Labat
New Orleans
U.S. Dist
E. Gordon West
United States
Louisiana State Prison
Benjamin E. Smith
Chessman
Cary Chessman
California
Louisiana
Jack Gremillion
Tennessee
Robert L. Penedo
Poret
Ruby's Appeal Delayed To Next Year
Assistant district attorney notes Ruby's murder conviction appeal will not be heard this year due to the volume of records required. Judge Brown may order a trial-history record of hearings. Ruby was convicted and sentenced to death for the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy's alleged assassin.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Court of Criminal Appeals
Asst. Dist
Jim Bowie
Phil Burleson
Ruby
Joe B. Brown
Brown
Lee Tarvey Oswald
John F Kennedy
Pearson Opposes Any Separation From Canada
Ottawa report quotes Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson stating an economics study he ordered will demonstrate that separation within Canada is unthinkable. He notes the study will examine economic interrelations between Canada’s regions and not focus on Quebec secession.
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Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Pearson
Quebec
Kennedy Watches Brother on TV From Berlin Broadcast
Senator Edward M Kennedy bedridden with a broken back watches his brother Attorney General Robert F Kennedy in a Berlin television broadcast. He improves slightly as sponge arm rests are added to his bed and a TV is installed in his Cooley Dickinson Hospital room. Mrs. John F Kennedy visits for 45 minutes while other relatives and accident victims are noted in Washington and Massachusetts.
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Northampton
Mass
Edward M. Kennedy
Robert F Kennedy
Berlin
Sen
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Sen. Kennedy
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
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Ted Kennedy
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Birch Bayh
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Marvella
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Grand Ave
Gideon Road
Vail Ave
Strand Laundry
McGee's Mkt
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First National
National Loen
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F.D
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Monroe
Ohio
Trenton
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