Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stayed for dinner and the next day went to watch Bailey perform in court. Three days later Bailey proposed. Lynda, then engaged to marry someone else (the invitations were already out) promptly accepted...
...remains on good terms with his two former wives. When the eldest of his three sons was married last summer, all the Bailey women showed up and cheerfully posed with Lee for a group snapshot, each of them holding up one, two or three fingers to indicate their sequence in the This Was Bailey's Life marital tableau. He is a lavish Christmas gift-giver, distributing houses, cars, a house trailer and trips to his parents, wife, ex-wives, in-laws and children. But he sees few of them regularly?except for Lynda, who travels almost everywhere with...
...least for the run of their cases: his clients. "He gets too close to his clients," complains a colleague. There is a big-brother tone of genuine concern when he talks about the infamous men he has defended. On the other hand, once a trial is over, Bailey is characteristically the first man out of the courtroom...
...What makes me run?" Bailey has written. "I burn, dammit, that's why. I like to run." It is the same with flying. Bailey almost never delays a flight in his own aircraft. "It goes no matter what," and the "what" may be rain, snow, ice, fog, turbulence, thunderstorm or some combination thereof. One white-knuckled regular on these flights reports that Bailey invariably ends the hairiest trips by chortling: "Well, we've defeated the grim reaper once again...
...that intense drive that stirs the most important and complex question about Bailey. Does his kind of all-out advocacy represent a strength or a weakness in the U.S. judicial system...