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During a legal conference in London last summer, Attorney General Griffin Bell and Federal Circuit Judge William Webster of St. Louis got to talking about the FBI. What would his answer have been, Bell wondered, had Webster been asked to head the bureau instead of Alabama Federal Judge Frank Johnson? "I don't know," replied Webster. "I have never thought of myself in that role...
Webster was chosen from an original list of 117 prospects that was narrowed down to two after Bell consulted with lawyers, judges and law-enforcement officials. He and the other finalist, Federal Judge Frank McGarr of Chicago, met with Carter last week. Bell noted that both are Republicans; the Administration has been under heavy fire lately for partisanship in its appointments of federal judges and prosecutors. Bell suggested that Carter's decision might have turned on a simple affinity of temperament. "McGarr is a trial lawyer and has a more dominant personality," said the Attorney General. "Webster is given...
...Ralph Bell finished his studies at Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and settled down in that same old house, even though nobody gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that Kanawha County schools would goddam well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a pistol under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out $250,000 insurance policy that...
...Dreamland that Bell walked was like none of the Dreamlands his fathers had. Dreamland focused on his friend Jimmy Seabolt, dead at 18 three days before high school graduation in the hot auditorium of the high school named after his great-grandfather's friend and commanding officer Stonewall Jackson, dead in a low-rent poolhall called Syl's Place because two men from the same refrigerator assembly line in Akron had come to visit relations in West Virginia and in an argument shot Jimmy, leaving Bell to identify the body...
...Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation, as if he was their last foothold in the world beyond Dreamland, beyond the world where the Prince...