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...Judge Hoffman missed by more than a quarter-century being the first Chicago jurist to bear the label "Julius the Just" [Feb. 9]. During a seminar held at Northwestern University Law School in 1945, the late distinguished Judge Julius Miner was asked whether he was aware that he was frequently referred to as "Julius the Just." With characteristic wit he replied immediately: "Yes, but I think of myself as just Julius...
Just to keep the record straight, attachment of the tag to Judge Miner was by no means sardonic...
CRIME A Deadly Venom Jock Yablonski aroused strong feelings wherever he went in the traditionally violent coal fields. In December, the burly 59-year-old former miner challenged President W. A. ("Tony") Boyle in an election to head the United Mine Workers Union. Yablonski lost, but not before he had made fiery speeches accusing union leaders of mismanagement and worse. Yablonski was the sort of man who inspired either ardent loyalty or deep enmity. Last week the enmity caught up with him. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were found shot to death in their secluded home in Clarksville, Pa., south...
...apologies to music director John Miner and his orchestra. While a polysyllabic evaluation of their performance is quite beyond me, I was able to notice that tempos seemed quite spirited, the audience seemed quite appreciative, and the female timpanist was quite lovely. Dic Fledermans (in English) runs over three hours, what with everyone singing away instead of just saving things outright but no one-singers, musicians, or audience-appears to tire along...
...settlement called No Name City sprouts at the peak of the Gold Rush. Population: male. In No Name dwell a miner, forty-niner (Lee Marvin), and his partner (Clint Eastwood). In time -great gaping wastes of it-along comes a blonde named Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). There isn't enough of Elizabeth to go around, so she shacks up with both partners. They make a beautiful triple until No Name is visited by some outsiders carrying a plague of respectability. Elizabeth succumbs, and only an hour and a half after the audience anticipates it, she settles down with...