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Died. Edna Ferber, 80, grande dame of the big, romantic American novel, whose 32 books sold millions of copies; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The tiny, supercharged daughter of a Jewish businessman in Ottumwa, Iowa, she decided to "show" the town's anti-Semites by becoming famous. And so she did, never marrying, pouring everything into her writing as she mined the rich lodes of Americana she found all across the country-in Chicago (1924's So Big), the Mississippi River (1926's Show Boat), Oklahoma (1929's Cimarron), upstate New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 26, 1968 | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...other two defendants in the case are Michael K. Ferber 2G and Mitchell Goodman, a New York author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spock Trial to Begin on May 20; Federal Judge Upholds Indictment | 4/24/1968 | See Source »

Inside the Post Office, in an austerely decorated twelfth-story courtroom, the adversaries in the case gathered last week for the first encounter in what may be a long legal duel. The five defendants--Spock, Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Harvard graduate student Michael K. Ferber, writer Mitchell Goodman, and former National Security Council staffer Marcus Raskin--were all there, each with one or more attorneys. So were Judge Francis J.W. Ford, who will hear the case, and assistant U.S. attorney John Wall, who will argue the government's side, at least at first. In addition, there was the usual...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Spock in Court | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

...charged merely with speaking against the war and the draft, and not with committing substantive crimes. "So long as they are discussing public matters, no matter how vigorously, and so long as they do not reach incitement (to break the law), they are protected," said William P. Homans Jr., Ferber's lawyer...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Spock in Court | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

...word 'counsel' as used in the statute is so broad as to suppress all discussion of the draft in this country," said William P. Homans Jr., lawyer for Michael K. Ferber 2G, another of the defendants...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Hearings Finish On Spock Case In Boston Court | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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