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...caption in the April 12, 1960, New York Times, beneath a picture of the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner, was hardly calculated to please the subject. "Police Commissioner Eugene Connor," it read, "was elected on a race hate platform." Other references to Connor, in Timesman Harrison Salisbury's accompanying two-part story on race tensions in Birmingham, were no more flattering. "Bull" Connor sued the Times for $400,000 in damages, and was joined in his action by six other Alabama officials. Last week in Birmingham, four years after publication of the Times story, a federal-district-court jury awarded...
...Times, the amount and nature of the award, as welt as the Connor case itself, had special significance. In 1961, on the ground that it did no business in Alabama and therefore could not be sued there, the paper got all seven cases tossed out of court-only to have the decision reversed on appeal. The six other suits have since been dismissed; unlike Connor, none of the other officials were named in the Salis bury stories...
Most bizarre entry to date is Writer-Director Dore Schary's One by One, the love story of two paraplegics. All Honorable Men is a drama about Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Pulitzer Prizewinner Joseph Kramm (The Shrike), with George Grizzard as Hamilton. Edwin O'Connor has dramatized his new novel, I Was Dancing, about an ex-vaudeville hoofer...
Died. Flannery O'Connor, 39, authoress of the Deep South, an impassioned Roman Catholic from the Georgia backwoods who, in 30 short stories and two critically acclaimed novels (Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away}, explored the South's religious curiosities, finding among them such an appalling collection of lunatic prophets and murderous fanatics that one critic called her "a literary white witch," and she herself said, "I write from 9 to 12, and spend the rest of the day recuperating"; of lupus erythematosus (a rare tissue disease); in Milledgeville...
...Nicklaus, who at 205 Ibs. is one of golf's best-anchored pros. He three-putted six greens, settled for a 76. Lema, who weighs in at 180 Ibs., shot a one-over-par 73, two strokes off the pace set by Ireland's Christy O'Connor and France's Jean Garaialde, and pronounced himself satisfied. "There is nothing comparable to putting in this wind," he said. "Let me tell you something about golf-it's a humbling game." The nicest thing anybody could say about the second day was that the wind was only...