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What he did not have was credentials to practice law. Simmons was really an Alabamian named Daniel Jackson Ol iver Wendell Holmes Morgan, who never went beyond grade school. He had been in and out of jails since his teens and had learned his law not at Howard but in prison libraries, where he researched appeals for himself and other inmates. Described as "the King of the Courtroom Fakers" by Ebony magazine, Morgan practiced for eight years in Chicago, until he was exposed. Sentencing Morgan to prison for contempt of court, the judge quipped that his name alone "was enough...
...Harvard, the race turned into a disheartening repetition ol last Sunday's preliminary heat...
Cache in the Shaft. Most original ol the art-nouveau architects was Spain's Antoni Gaudi, but recognition was slow in coming. Two decades ago, Art Historian Nikolaus Pevsner, in his Pioneers of Modern Design, relegated Gaudi to two footnotes in the appendix. Eight years later, Pevsner recanted, saying, "He is the only genius produced by art-nouveau." Gaudi, who urged that "we must not imitate or reproduce Gothic but continue it," based his studies on Catalan architecture and plant forms in nature. The results, scholars now recognize, intuitively anticipated many of today's shell structures, including...
...committee. The second came last year, after the Administration blandly assured him that there were enough votes in favor of a bill to raise the debt ceiling. The count was wrong. Both setbacks apparently seared Mills's soul. In between, he built himself a name as "Ol' Never-Miss Wilbur," and he is reluctant to put that reputation on the line for anything as uncertain as the tax surcharge, however necessary...
...Paar and a Funny Thing Happened Everywhere turned a familiar TV art form into an hour of belly laughs -a collection of filmed bloopers and candid idiocies. Paar himself was the same old enigma. He made few new friends with his enduring self-awareness ("All that applause for little ol' me, Mr. Show Business?") and his growing fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League. It's not true they're responsible for crime in America"). But he had the old, keen eye for human foibles: a Hindu...