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Alabama's freshman Congressman William Dickinson, 39, a Democrat-turned-Republican, is an ex-footballer from Montgomery, a onetime state judge, and a former assistant vice president of the Southern Railway System. He likes to make a splash. Last week he splashed mud all over the House floor. But only Dickinson got dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Mud in the House | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...hour-long speech, Dickinson declared that on the recent Selma-to-Montgomery march there was an interracial sex orgy of such proportions as to excite the envy of the most degraded pornographer. According to a batch of luridly detailed affidavits signed by various Alabama policemen and civilians, the marchers, when not marching, were apparently everywhere publicly fornicating, petting, kissing, drinking, exposing themselves and urinating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Mud in the House | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Love on the Lawn? While his colleagues squirmed with shame and embarrassment, Dickinson blandly allowed as how "I am not going to vouch for the authenticity or the veracity of any affidavit or any individual whose affidavit I hold"-and then proceeded to lend them authenticity by reading some of the "eyewitness" reports aloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Mud in the House | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...John Dickinson of Delaware, a member of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, raised a ticklish question relating to the matter of succession in the event of a President's disability. "What is the extent of the term 'disability,' " asked Dickinson, "and who is to be the judge of it?" The question was swiftly referred to a committee - where it stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Starting to Settle The Succession Question | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Fein asked Gloria to get a friend to help. "Why call a friend?" she demanded. "I'm strong." "But Gloria," protested Fein, "the trunk is very heavy." Gloria called two friends-Geri Boxer, 22, who described herself as a copywriter with a psychology degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and David Broudy, 32, a onetime cabbie and hairdresser. Gloria then sent Fein home "because he was in pretty bad shape," drove to the Harlem River with the others and pushed the trunk in. "There was a thump and a splash," she said. When the body surfaced, there was an even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Madam's Mark | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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