Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...
Like a Champ. The resounding figures reflected the Georgia jury's opinion of the casual journalism of the Saturday Evening Post, which had accused the former Georgia football coach of trying to fix a Georgia-Alabama game. "Butts was just a symbol," said a juror later. The jury had settled on $3,000,000 in punitive damages, he said, as the proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity...
Like a Loser. At the Post and its parent Curtis Publishing Co., the verdict landed with a thud. Its secondary effects had yet to be studied as advertisers assess the damage done to the Post's reputation. "The Story of a College Football Fix" was only one entry in Editor Clay Blair Jr.'s program of "sophisticated muckraking," designed to rejuvenate the magazine. That program has already generated three other libel actions-one of them filed by Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant for the very same article...
...jury box agreed with the Georgia football fans waving the signs, would only come clear with this week's verdict.But witness after witness had already handed down an unofficial decision. For the manner in which it put together last spring's "The Story of a College Football Fix" - an article that accused Butts of trying to rig a Georgia-Alabama football game - the proud old Post stood convicted of careless journalism...
...trouble was touched off last spring when the Post published "The Story of a College Football Fix," by Frank Graham Jr., an article alleging that Butts had given information to Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant to help highly favored Alabama whip a second-rate Georgia team 35-0 in its first game of the 1962 season. In Georgia, where college football commands violent loyalties, such charges were no less than an accusation of treason. Butts raced into court. Right behind him came Bear Bryant, who was already suing the Post for $500,000 because of an earlier article that said...