Word: herberts
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Subjective Strength. British Philosopher Herbert Spencer once described a jury as "a group of twelve people of average ignorance." U.S. critics point out that the people best qualified to serve-clergymen, lawyers, doctors, newsmen-are precisely the ones exempted. Some judges complain that juries, either through dumbness or perversity, ignore instructions and promote government by men rather than laws. For 13 years, Authors Kalven and Zeisel have probed such complaints through the Ford Foundation-financed Universi ty of Chicago Jury Project-even to the extent of once bugging a Wichita jury room and scandalizing Congress in the process. Now, after...
...publisher of the New York Post who inherited a real estate fortune and has served as a political adviser to Averell Harriman, elucidates the psychology of power in an intelligent tale about a character admittedly modeled on the late James Forrestal. All the Little Heroes (Bobbs-Merrill) by Herbert Wilner, 40, describes with tender humor and felicity how in the last ten days of his life a dying man learns how to live. This Blessed Shore (Shorecrest) by Thomas B. Morgan, 39, recounts with rage and considerable skill how another dying man (the author's father) suffered terminal agonies...
Though a light rain and jet sky gave the thickly planted court the macabre air of a Hawthorne novel, some 100 persons turned out to mark Herbert Hoover's birthday (Aug. 10, 1874), the annexation of Hawaii (Aug. 12, 1898), and the patenting of the washing machine (Aug. 9, 1910). There was little else to celebrate...
...campaign to affirm that public intoxication alone is no cause for arrest without actual disorderly conduct. Were the bums pleased with this victory for humane treatment? Indeed not: they are clamoring for the good old days. "They want to get taken in," reported the Bowery Mission's Rev. Herbert Maynard last week. "They want to get cleaned up and get some food. If they can get ten days, they think they can get straightened...
...made New York and Chicago practically suburbs of each other. It did so with an all-Pullman splendor that offered both fresh-and saltwater baths, barbers and a library. Soprano Nellie Melba, the Armours, the Swifts and Teddy Roosevelt rode the train, and oldtime waiters recall that early-rising Herbert Hoover was invariably first up for breakfast. But in recent years, ordinary coaches had to be added to match the fare ($43) at which jets now fly, in two hours, as against the train's 16-hour...