The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953 Page: 7 of 62
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? 1924 Thrill Slayer’ Plans
To Make Bid for Freedom
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CHICAGO, Jan. 3 (n—Nathan
Leopold, partner in the 1924 thrill
slaying of young Bobby Franks,
will make a bid for freedom next
week.
He will appear before the Illinois
Pardon and Parole Board, which
will open hearings Thursday at
the Stateville Penitentiary to
Joliet.
Leopold, short, stocky and 48
now, has been in prison for 28
years.
He and Bichard Loeb were given
concurrent terms of 90 years and
life for kidnapping and murder in
the Franks ease—a erime that
shocked the nation.
They pleaded guilty, and were
defended by the late famed attor-
ney, Clarence Darrow. v
Leopold and Loeb, both it and
University of Chicago students, ab-
ducted the 14-year-old Franks boy.
They bathed his skull with a
chisel, laid his body in a wooded
area and sent a demand for
*10.000 in ransom to the lad’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Franks.
The trail for the killers led to
the two youths because of a pair
of glasses one of them dropped st
the spot where the body was found.
They told police later they had
planned a “perfect crime,’’ They
said, they wanted to experience
the “thrill” of Miling.
Leopold and Loeb entered prison
in September, 1924, Loeb was slash-
ed to death by another convict to
1936.
Leopold became eligible to apply
for parole on the life sentence six
years ago, after serving the mini-
mum as yen required by state
law.
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson to 1949
reduced the other sentence from
IB to SS years. This makes him
eligible for a parole boartag this
month.
This reduction to the to year
term was recommended by the
Pardon and Parole Board. Taken
into consideration were records
which showed good conduct in pris-
on and that he had joined other
inmates in serving as a “guinea
pig” to tests of malaria drugs dur-
ing World War n.
Bob Taylor Misses
Top 25° Despite
2 Top Pictures
By JAMBS BACON
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. S un—I’s
good that Robert Taylor is one of
the very few stars who doesn’t
take his standing in Hollywood too
seriously.
Else, he might be a candidate
for his own throat-slitting at the
moment. But Taylor prob-
ably won't even get an ulcer out of
what has happened to him la re-
cent days, to wit:
1. The annual poll of movie ex-
hibitors recently listed the ton 25
box office stars of 1952. Taylor's
name was not among them al-
though he starred in the top two
box office pictures of 1952- “Quo
Vadis" and "Ivanhoe." Figure that
one out.
2. MGM recently press-pre-
viewed "Above and Beyond."
wherein Taylor, who never has
had an Academy Award, deserves
one for his portrayal of Col. Paul
7.A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
A Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, Jan. 4, 1953
W. Tibbets, the pilot who dropped
the first atomic bomb on Hiro-
shima.
Even members of the Holly-
wood press urged that the studio
release "Above and Beyond” in
time to beat the Jan. 1 deadline
so that the well - liked Taylor
could be in the Oscar running. In
order to qualify, a picture must
be shown locally sometime in 1952.
A front office spokesman argued
that three big Taylor pictures in
one year would be too much. So
they scheduled it for release Jan.
2.
Taylor good-naturedly said that
the studio probably couldn't get a
theater booking in time but the
real reason is that the studio brass
wants all-cut, united MGM support
for "Tbs Bad and the Beautiful."
Here’s a Buck •
Marked With Penny
ISMAY, Mont. Ml — Anybody
mark a buck with a penny?
A buster shot a deer and to
skinning it found a penny under
the hide on a hind leg. He figures
the coin was probably inserted
when the buck was a fawn.
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THANKS! MR. & MRS. WEST TEXAS for
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953, newspaper, January 4, 1953; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652249/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.