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...white men, however long the search went on. So Carter was faced with the decision of whether to overlook the legal credentials needed for Justice and pick someone like Patricia Harris, a black lawyer from Washington, or Barbara Jordan, or perhaps a black federal judge from Pennsylvania, Leon Higgenbotham, who has extensive legal experience but little management background. The FBI choice posed a different challenge. Mondale, especially, urged that the FBI have a director from outside Justice, a man with few ties to Carter or his staff. Said Mondale: "We need a tough, hardheaded civilian to rehabilitate that place...
Steve Connolly of the Savoy is giving Higgenbotham time off from the Boston music place in order to encourage a jazz revival at Harvard. Should Sunday's concert indicate a real College following for such entertainment, Leverett will plan similar programs next year...
These include Johnny Fields, formerly with Wild Bill Davison, on the bull fiddle; trumpet player Rudy Braff, once with Bobby Hackett's band; and Al Navarro at clarinet. George Wein will be at the plane and Don Scott on drums. Contrasted against Higgenbotham's individual style will be that of Ralph Ferrigno, Boston trembonist now with Max Kaminsky...
...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...
Author Rawlings wondered why Mr. Martin would take a scrawny sow. Mr. Higgenbotham explained. "Well, when you figger on a sow, you figger on more than a sow. You buy you a sow, and directly you've got a litter of pigs to boot. . . . Now I'm carrying that sow there to Mr. Martin's boar hog. You know sows?" Mrs. Rawlings said no. "Well, a sow's peculiar. Times, she'll take, and again she'll not take. It all depends on the moon. Now last moon, she'd not of took...