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...Reconstruction, the twelve-county Third District in southwest Mississippi is roughly 55% white; registered Negro voters, moreover, are outnumbered by about 125,000 to 70,000 at the polls. Since none of the candidates gained a majority in last week's election, Evers and the runner-up, Charles Griffin, 41, a longtime congressional aide to John Bell Williams, who picked up 28,806 votes, will face each other in a March 12 runoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Part of the Way | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Between the abundant yuks and cackles squirms the sadistic little tale of Mortimer Lucas Griffin, an all-Canadian boy in London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minorities Are Funny | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Jimmy Durante plays host to Hostman Merv Griffin. Other guests are Ethel Merman and The Grassroots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 1, 1967 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...Clyde Griffin, teacher of History at Vassar, said "I'm sorry. In my personal opinion, though, the majority of the faculty and alumnae are glad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vassar and Yale Will Not Merge | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...Griffin said that he had sensed what the decision would be before it was announced. "The announcement came as a surprise only because I wasn't told of it before hand," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vassar and Yale Will Not Merge | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

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