Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awaiting trial on a charge of stabbing his wife, Author Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer was earning bail money last week with a reading at Manhattan's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association. After polishing off some prose, he turned to verse with a warning that there would be language that "other people call obscene." Several short works and four-letter words later, Mailer leaped into his "transitions...
...Brainwashed." But the truth was that all day plans were being laid for violence. In one nearby town, the mayor publicly offered to go bail for anybody arrested. Athens (pop. 20,000) filled with rednecks from all around, including Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, whose pistol-packing henchmen energetically passed out their racist sheet, The Rebel. One of the university's own regents, Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris, charged that President Aderhold and Dean of Men William Tate "brainwashed" the school into accepting Negroes; Harris vowed to spend the rest of his life...
...crooks. Success led inevitably to Hollywood, where, after creating The Thin Man, he doctored scripts, became a leader of the left-wing coterie. In 1951 he served six months in prison for refusing to tell a federal court the source of funds he had helped solicit for Communist Party bail jumpers...
...arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy. "But I don t like the publicity...
...could catch up with him. Last week he displayed no surprise when FBI agents arrested him on a charge of wartime espionage, which could carry a death sentence. Taken to the federal courthouse in nearby Manhattan, Soblen pleaded not guilty, was jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail. Coolly he asked the judge for permission to bid farewell to "the FBI gentlemen-they were nice enough." Then he bowed from the waist and waved to the agents. Said he: "Thank you very much, gentlemen...