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...Clerking for the Supreme Court is now a launching pad for all kinds of later fame -be it heading the State Department (Dean Acheson), running U.S. Steel (Irving Olds), going to jail (Alger Hiss), becoming a leading sociologist (David Riesrnan), or returning as a Supreme Court Justice (Byron White). "It is much more than a meal ticket," explains one ex-clerk. "It's an incalculably valuable experience...
...literary underworld abounds with stories about great writers who were also great pornographers. Mark Twain amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring...
...PROKOFIEV: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3. (Kyril Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic; Mercury). Byron Janis blasts off like a rocket with the orchestra ablaze behind him, and even when they get back to earth, they are still incandescent. The First Rachmaninoff Concerto on the other side is equally brilliant. A harmonious international collaboration, the record was made with U.S. equipment in Bolshoi Hall and won the French Oscar, a Grand Prix du Disque...
...Byron De La Beckwith (remember him?) was in a private cell right below us, and the trusties said that his meals were sent up to him by a local group of white ladies that he had sheets--changed every week--and that the deputies brought him a newspaper every...
BURTON by Byron Farwell. 431 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...