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From dean's office to dormitory, people who knew Freshman John Robert Wagner at Cambridge's famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award...
Alimentary Defense. In Chillicothe, Ohio, after a judge fined him $25 for reckless driving and revoked his license for 30 days, 81-year-old William R. Lowrey grudgingly surrendered the license to a bailiff, later snatched it back and sprinted away, was hauled back before the judge and ordered to produce the license, drew two days in jail for contempt of court when he boasted...
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, kept his place while the bailiff explained who he was. "That makes no difference," snapped the judge. "Clear the court...
With the cry of the bailiff one morning last week, the jampacked courtroom in Birmingham's Federal Building fell silent, stood as Judge H. Hobart Grooms, lanky veteran of more than a quarter century of practice as a Birmingham lawyer, took his place. Beyond the closed courtroom doors, in the corridor, latecomers waited patiently, hoping for a chance at seats...
...trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller's lawyers beamed at her: "You carried yourself like a trouper." Exulted one of Bobo's own lawyers: "It's wonderful . . . No hard feelings. No recriminations." Murmured a less cheery court bailiff: "The big gold rush...