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Commander Cody, The Maynard Silva Band and Eight to the Bar--the Channel...
James Tobin, 63, likes to joke about himself as "a discredited Keynesian," in reference to his economics hero, John Maynard Keynes. Last week the mild-mannered Yale economics professor got the last laugh. In Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding him the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. Tobin thus becomes the tenth U.S. citizen to receive the prize since it was first awarded...
Williams' increasingly erratic behavior may have sparked the decision to make an arrest. The night before he was brought in, the suspect had led a police surveillance team on a chase through the city, driving past the homes of Mayor Maynard Jackson, Nathaniel Cater's father and finally Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, where he paused to honk his horn and shout. In addition, the possibility that Williams might attempt to flee was raised by reports that his father had requested information about a charter pilot at a local airport...
...officials from releasing information that might harm her client. The "blitzkrieg of media harassment" and various statements by the authorities, charged Welcome, have already "irreparably destroyed the presumption of innocence" to which Williams is constitutionally entitled if brought to trial. Williams' petition named, among others, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the three major TV networks, the New York Times and Post, and both the Associated Press and United Press International (TIME was not named). U.S. Judge Orinda Evans decided last week to consider Williams' petition in two separate hearings: one behind closed doors...
...Show He Never Gave. Williams, the country singer responsible for such hits as Your Cheatin' Heart, Jambalaya, Half as Much and Hey, Good Lookin', was a prototype of the doomed, dark star: drink and drugs sent him on an inevitable trajectory to death at 29 in 1953. Maynard Collins' play is conceived as Williams' last concert, in which he performs 22 of his songs while telling his version of an entertainer's life and self-inflicted hard times. As the performance progresses, and Hank periodically darts offstage for a "glass of milk," he becomes more...