Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to have to show these people that we are just as willing to die right here in Los Angeles to help this man reidentify as we are willing to die in Selma." To illustrate the gulf that existed between the Negro "haves" and "have-nots," Negro State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally recounted an exchange at the riots' height with a boy who was brandishing a Molotov cocktail...
...Director Mervyn LeRoy lets the pace lag from time to time, but relief is ever nigh. And are the gags still funny? Very, very...
...hours of relentless questioning by Prosecuting Counsel Mervyn Griffith-Jones, Ward's composure was seldom shattered. Asked about Vickie Barrett, he burst out: "If this girl is telling the truth, then I am guilty. My case must depend on saying this girl is lying." Drumming nicotine-stained hands on the dock rail, Ward declared that Christine, Mandy and half a dozen other witnesses who testified against him were motivated by malice or greed. He cried, "Anyone who comes in from the street can come forward and say I am lying...
...diocese is said to be on the boil," says the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark. "If that is so, I accept it as a compliment. Boiling water is better than tepid. It can cleanse and generate power." Measured against British coolness to the Anglican faith (of 27 million baptized members, only 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls), the Diocese of Southwark is indeed bubbling. And Bishop Stockwood, 50, a charming and worldly man in whom humility coexists with vanity, gives it another stir almost daily. In the process, he has become perhaps the most storied bishop...
...greeted him at the door, saying, "I'm afraid you can't see him now-he's expecting the bishop." A bit later he joined a quiet gathering attended by other bishops wearing black gaiters and aprons. Stockwood was resplendent in purple cassock and cape. "Ah, Mervyn," said one friend, "incognito, I see." Shortly after young Prince Charles, 14, was caught drinking cherry brandy in a hotel bar in Scotland last month, Bishop Stockwood was introduced to a parishioner's son at a sherry party on the lawn of a rather staid Surrey rectory. Jovially...