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Many of the great criminal lawyers are as famous for their dramatic ability as for their legal skills. But none ever made a courtroom more theatrical than Earl Rogers, a dandyish, hard-drinking, devil-may-care Californian who practiced at the turn of the century. Rogers won acquittals no one thought possible with courtroom antics never seen before-and no longer tolerated in today's courts. And Rogers was, by common consent, the fastest tongue in the West...
Died. Albert Lavenson Furth, 60, assistant editorial director of Time Inc.; of cancer; in Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion. A gentle, dryly witty Californian who came East with Hearst's old International News Service, Furth joined TIME in 1930 to write the PRESS and AERONAUTICS sections, in 1936 became a member of FORTUNE's board of editors, became executive editor in 1942, a post he held for 14 years until his appointment as an overall editorial planner for all Time Inc. publications...
Although the Berkeley meeting started off with violent anti-Kennedy speeches, reporters for the Daily Californian said the mood of the meeting changed as pro-Kennedy students joined the throng. Heated arguments in the crowd at times threatened to explode into fist fights...
...fear was far greater at Michigan and California, however, with many students apparently feeling "all this couldn't be happening." Today's Californian editorial said, "People are forcing smiles where there is no laughter." It also chastised students for continuing to "laugh and study and meet our girl friends" without realizing the seriousness of the times. Michigan Daily reporter Michael Zweig said he had "never seen students so concerned and upset." A similar atmosphere prevailed at Columbia...
This second novel by Author Jean (The Quick Years) Ariss, 47, a Californian with an artist-husband and five children, is flawed by her refusal to give proper names to her leading characters. As in a morality play, they are labeled the man, the woman, the father. Another seeming handicap is that the man proves to be a confirmed alcoholic who re-enacts the Lost Weekend gamut from DTs to strait jackets to the shameless cadging of money and sympathy...