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Things were as genteel as could be when Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, was transferred to Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Miss., after three months in nearby Rankin County Jail. "Glad to see you," welcomed the jailer. "Mighty glad to be here," said Beckwith, comfortably puffing on a cigar and seemingly unconcerned that his trial has just been set for Jan. 27. But even Southern hospitality has to leave off somewhere. When he asked permission to bring his gun collection, his jailers politely refused. Back in Rankin County the sheriff was amazed...
...were canceled in the shambles of the opening night. But there remained a good question as to why Il Corsaro was chosen in the first place. Except for his disastrously bad Alzira, it represents Verdi's single lapse from musicianship and inspiration, and the preposterous libretto, inspired by Byron's The Corsair-the story of an Aegean pirate whose ill-starred romance leads to murder and suicide-scarcely helps matters. The one pleasing aria and the single engaging duet could hardly be expected to mollify a fastidious audience. Even the most pious Verdi worshipers could not help applying...
...mention balmy. One girl natters on about an unexploded German bomb buried in the club garden. Another dresses endlessly for an imaginary dinner date with a famous British actor. A wholesome vicar's daughter gives elocution lessons and keeps the rafters ringing at odd moments with bits of Byron and snatches of Shakespeare. "Joanna Childe," the author says, describing the girl in one of those thumbnail assessments that keep her books blessedly brief, "had a good intelligence and strong obscure emotions . . . she loved poetry rather as it might be assumed a cat loves birds...
...court now stands, the usual five-member majority (consisting of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, William Brennan Jr. and Arthur Goldberg) is characterized as "liberal." The four-member minority (Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Potter Stewart and Byron White) is called "conserva tive." But once those labels are at tached, comes the rub - and a prodigious amount of punditical energy is used in trying to describe the difference between a Supreme Court liberal and a Supreme Court conservative...
...investigations ranging from the drug industry to steel pricing to boxing and baseball. In 1962, when Justice Charles Evans Whittaker retired from the Supreme Court, Kefauver's name was mentioned as a replacement, but the New Frontier didn't cotton to the Keefs independent ways and named Byron ("Whizzer") White instead...