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Last week in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse, the case of United States of America v. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. went to the jury. Charged with filing a fraudulent 1951 income tax return for his estranged wife. Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, Powell faced a theoretical $10,000 fine, five years in jail. The long-delayed case, which had been under federal investigation for more than four years, was haphazardly prosecuted by the Government; two of three original charges against Powell were thrown out during the trial when the government failed to support the charges. Powell himself was brilliantly defended...
Cherokee Grandmother. As the Pied Piper of Harlem, Powell has an odd set of credentials. Most of his followers are Negroes; and though the lightskinned, hazel-eyed Powell has represented himself in the past as the grandson of a branded slave, he now says he is not a Negro (his grandmother, he says, was a Cherokee Indian, his other grandparents white). Most of his constituents know the sting of poverty; Powell has never lacked money. His mother, Mattie Powell, was an illegitimate heiress of the Schaefer brewing fortune, according to her son, and his father dabbled in Harlem real estate...
Leap Year. In London, after Michael Moore, 33, serving four years for burglary, was allowed out of his Pentonville Prison cell to marry Hazel Dunphey in a nearby church, he went through the ceremony with two police escorts watching, signed the register, kissed his bride, dashed up the aisle and escaped...
...stand with integrity in the academic world," there must be encouragement to "pursue some problems to the depths. Intellectual innocence is not a Christian virtue." Later, puffing on his pipe in the com fortable "President's Cottage," a century-old Gothic house recently remodeled by his wife Hazel, President McCord ex panded on his thesis. "There has been a theological parenthesis for some three decades or more. The church was chal lenged on her source of authority, and theology began to go on the defensive...
...Adam Powell was uncommonly nervous. After many and sundry delays the U.S. had finally haled him before a jury on two-year-old charges of dodging federal income taxes. The indictment charged that Powell, in filing 1951 and 1952 tax returns for himself and his estranged wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, had defrauded the Government of $3,032.69 by paying only $1,690 in taxes on total earnings...