Two weeks after he wrote a syndicated newspaper column on the death of his dog, Socialist Norman Thomas, six-time loser as a presidential candidate, studied his booming fan mail, ruefully concluded that "I might get more votes as a dog lover than as a Socialist."
A quarter of a century after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was 19 . ....
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