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Stephens was understandably irritated over this treatment, especially when police refused his own brother permission to see him. His irritation raised a little-understood legal issue: What are the rights of a material witness? He got in touch with a pair of Memphis attorneys, Harvey Gipson, 37, and Jay Fred Friedman, 33, who pored over the laws of not only Tennessee but other states for precedents. While most states permit the jailing of witnesses, the attorneys found, the laws have been applied only in extreme circumstances-when there is clearly no other way to guarantee a witness's appearance...
...testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied due process and that his bail was excessive...
...javelin, Princeton football player Hayward Gipson and Harvard sophomore Henry Bernsen have both thrown over 200-feet. But Bernsen has yet to hit that mark this year, while Gipson threw 204 ft. last week...
Princeton is not unbeatable. A week ago- last-place Brown lost to the Tigers, 45 to 27, but Bruin quarterback Bob Hall threw four touchdown passes in that contest. Hall called innumerable down-and-out passes in the defensive zone of cornerback Hayward Gipson, apparently the weak link on Princeton's defense. But Harvard, sadly, does not have a passing attack which can put much pressure on the Tiger defense. Even though quarterback John McCluskey's passing is improving a great deal, Harvard apparently lacks any receiver who can catch the ball...
Knowing craftsmen in the dog-story game have practically made a convention of the tragic ending, and Author Gipson is not the man to trifle with convention. So Old Yeller has to go. But with his sure knowledge of Texas frontier life, a brace of engaging heroes and a loose-jointed, simple style to match, Author Gipson can probably depend on a substantial crowd of dog lovers eager to follow Old Yeller all the way to his bier...