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...Jefferson County jail in Birmingham one day last week, sheriff's deputies booked, mugged and fingerprinted an unusual prisoner: Alabama's Attorney General Silas Garrett, 41. Garrett's arrest, on an indictment for vote fraud in the June 1 Democratic primary, was another installment in one of the worst political scandals in Alabama history...
...Garrett. who cannot succeed himself in office, but who had backed an opponent of Albert Patterson, set out to investigate the murder. As his investigation got under way, he was brought before the vote fraud grand jury, grilled for 10½ hours. Eventually the jury indicted him and two other politicians for attempting to fix the primary in which the late Lawyer Patterson was nominated...
...Very Sick Man." After he testified before the grand jury, Garrett dropped out of the public eye. Then, one day, Garrett's father, Judge Coma Garrett Jr., finally revealed where his son had gone: to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas for psychiatric care. Said Judge Garrett: his son's physician believed he was a "very sick man mentally." The judge also gave Alabamans the disquieting news that their attorney general had spent two months of his term (August and September 1953) in the Sealy Hospital undergoing mental care...
...Push. In Milwaukee, charged with speeding 64 m.p.h. through city streets, Motorist Arthur Garrett was fined $50 despite his excuse: "Another car pushed...
...older members. Almost every year a Junior Fellow gives a series of talks for the Lowell Institute. Last year, one lectured on mathematics to the philosophy club. And, of greater interest to the University, many go on to teach here. Of the first group of Fellows, three: Garrett Birkhoff, Willard Quinc, and B. F. Skinner, have become Professors at Harvard. Since then a steady stream of members has enriched the faculty. Presently, twenty-five--around one quarter of the total number of Fellows--teach here in one capacity or another. Among them are professors Bate, Howard, Homans, Ingalls, Kelleher, Levin...