Word: earls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE is a sprawling semi-documentary that traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play itself is a drama of contrition stirred by the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding, arrogant boxer, commands the stage like an avenging black giant...
...Preston Battle, criminal court judge in Tennessee's Shelby County, is determined to keep the trial of James Earl Ray from turning into a courtroom circus. To make sure, Battle has issued a code of procedure that, among other things, prohibits any prejudicial, out-of-court discussion of the case by the principals. Last week, with the trial of Martin Luther King's alleged assassin still more than a month away, Battle made it clear that he meant what he said. He not only found Ray's lawyer and private detective guilty of contempt, but he issued...
...court faces as much uncertainty as it has ever known in its 178-year history. Justice Abe Fortas will sit to the right of his colleagues, and not in the chair that he had hoped to occupy; the seat in the center is still filled by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who is anxious to end his Supreme Court career. Three other Justices besides Warren are old enough to be thinking about retirement: Hugo Black, 82, John Marshall Harlan, 69, and William O. Douglas, 69. Lawyers who are preparing their cases for the court as it is now constituted may find...
...Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler, is a sprawling, episodic semi-documentary that traces the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world. In the play he is called Jack Jefferson, and James Earl Jones roars through the role with the jungle magnetism and pride of a lion. In a concentrated off-Broadway apprenticeship, Jones often played a kind of jolly brown giant; here he plays an avenging black one. Jones is not the kind of actor who buries himself in a part. Instead, he devours the part and then radiates its presence...
...Washburn, winner of the third game, has been named to pitch for the Cards Wednesday afternoon. Tiger Manager Mayo Smith has not decided between Joe Sparma and Earl Wilson, who pulled a hamstring muscle while losing Saturday's third game...