Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a lower-court judge ruled that 1,081 Negro children should be expelled from Birmingham schools for demonstrating, Judge Tuttle began hearing an appeal within six hours. Two days later he ordered the children reinstated immediately. In Americus, Ga., four civil rights workers were indicted on a variety of trumped-up charges; Judge Tuttle went to the town, convened a three-judge court on the spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake...
...RIGHT PEOPLE by Stephen Birmingham. 360 pages. Little, Brown...
...paltry times of inconspicuous consumption, when the rich no longer recognize their obligation to entertain the poor by erecting Rhenish castles and commissioning steam yachts, a book such as this guide to posh deserves the Jay Gould Award for Public Service. It is already a bestseller-which gives Stephen Birmingham, author of Our Crowd, the distinction of having two books on the Big List simultaneously. The dust jacket of The Right People describes it as "an important, authoritative work of serious social comment." Fortunately, this is nonsense. The Right People is malicious storytelling, leavened by gossip, and puts the well...
There is Society, Birmingham announces; then there is Real Society. "There were few Real Society people in attendance at the wedding of Luci Johnson." But: "Nor were there Real Society people at the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco. ('I hear that they met,' said a Philadelphia Society woman at the time, 'at the home of a mutual friend in Ocean City, New Jersey. But how can that be? No one has gone to Ocean City for years...
...Righter than others. Members of mere Society all know who Real Society people are, but members of Real Society cannot be expected to keep track of all of the worthy but numerous thanes who make up Society. The Social Register is not a reliable guide to who is Real. Birmingham implies that it is rather too democratic (it is published for profit, and one is not likely to buy it if one is not in it). Some citizens who are Real choose not to be listed. The author quotes Novelist Louis Auchincloss, however, who says: "The Social Register has gotten...