Word: gwinnett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Button Gwinnett Hospital, Flynt lay in critical condition. Surgeons began by removing much of his intestine. Then, in a second operation, they removed his spleen. After transferring him to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, doctors finally removed the bullet lodged near his spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called...
...Atlanta, Judge William Alexander of the Fulton County State Court ordered Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, to stand trial on charges of disseminating obscene material. Flynt, who faces similar charges in neighboring Gwinnett County, is free on bail while appealing a seven- to 25-year sentence in Cincinnati. The new trials could mean added penalties of up to 17 years...
...Washington in which he refused "pecuniary reward" for his services to the young country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter may be $51,000, the sum paid in 1927 for a routine communication by Button Gwinnett, one of the obscurest signers of the Declaration, whose rare autograph helped fuel the bidding at last week's auction...
...previous volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), who now moves to center stage. As promiscuous and frigid as ever, she lends a macabre sexual touch to dreadful Widmerpool's international intriguing. She also ensnares Powell's two important new characters-Louis Glober and Russel Gwinnett...
This pair, both Americans, illustrate Powell's penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source...