Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brash, bright F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey is the hottest criminal lawyer in the U.S. Last month he got a Cleveland jury to acquit Dr. Sam Sheppard of killing his wife; this week comes the sex-tinged murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey; after that, the Boston Strangler. Only six years out of law school, Bailey already compares himself to "Clarence" (meaning Darrow), though his monumental self-assurance might not yet convince William Jennings (meaning Bryan...
...account, Bailey has an IQ of 170, though he did "abominably" in school while growing up in suburban Boston where his father is a newspaper advertising man and his mother runs a thriving nursery school. Not until Bailey dropped out of Harvard College after two years and went into the Marine Corps as a jet fighter pilot did he find his vocation. Since lawyers are not required in most military trials, Bailey was able to become legal officer for 2,000 Marines at Cherry Point, N.C., and he tried more than 200 cases. With credit for his time in service...
Electronic Empire. Though Bailey was top man in his class at B.U. ('60), he graduated without honors because he refused to join the Law Review. Instead, he spent 60 hours a week running his own detective agency, which handled 2,000 cases for criminal lawyers while teaching Bailey his key skill-indefatigable investigation. After law school, Bailey attended Chicago's Keeler Polygraph Institute, then helped an elderly Boston lawyer defend an accused wife killer who had flunked a lie-detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss...
...Angeles Dodgers surprised everybody yesterday by trading shortstop Maury Wills not to the New York Yankees but to the Pittsburgh Pirates for third baseman Bob Bailey and shortstop Gene Michael...
Wills, who was handicapped by a leg injury over the last half of the season, will probably be used at third bas by the Pirates to replace the traded Bailey...