Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Semmel quotes from a paper of mine which appeared in the November, 1962, Kansas Law Review, and which was also published separately by the Roger Baldwin Foundation. As I said, both in the Kansas article and in the letter to the CRIMSON from Mr. Sutherland and myself, there is no legal privilege to shield one's friends by silence. One who is asked to testify to matters which actually tend to show this guilt does not lose the immunity he would have available, by reason of the fact that his claim of the privilege would not only protect...
...civic dinner, with the governor in attendance, Johnny took over the mike to explain how such a little fellow could be so good. Deliberately feigning a strong Jersey accent, Johnny grinned: "Well, foist youse baffle 'em wit science and den youse have a brudder like mine...
Life with Father. "Teaching," says Wilder, "is a natural expression of mine. It is part of my inheritance." His father, Amos Parker Wilder, was a Maine Congregationalist who took the pledge at seven, a Ph.D. in economics at Yale, and finally bought a newspaper in Madison, Wis. By the time a set of twins came along (Thornton's brother was stillborn), Amos Wilder had developed his own notions of education. Outside his own home, he was all charm and wit; as an after-dinner speaker, he could rival Chauncey Depew. But in his own home, he was a dominie...
...years later, Comstock appears to have had a change of heart about TIME. He writes: "I am an original subscriber to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE. Believing / can trust you to return them intact, I am sending you herewith ... a few old letters which you may find of interest." (Italics mine...
Until he was 30, handsome, wavy-haired Dave McDonald hankered to write plays. A parochial school boy, he had gone to work at 15, first as a machinist's helper and later as a clerk in a steel plant office. Phil Murray, then a United Mine Workers' vice president, hired McDonald as private secretary. But all the while he was learning the union ropes, in the tough Appalachian coal districts, Dave studied theater on the side. By 1932, he had won a certificate of graduation from Carnegie Tech's drama school, written a couple...