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Thomas, a native Mississippian and graduate of the Ole Miss law school, went on to criticize Mississippi's own courts for archaic customs and "adherence, by acquiescence, inertia or other wise, to the 'sporting theory of justice,' which makes justice a game instead of a quest for truth." He even urged the state to emulate federal courts and catch up with other states by approving modern pretrial discovery techniques and summary judgments (where there are no real factual issues) "for the removal of sham actions from the trial calendars." If Thomas surprised his listeners, who included...
...cruelty. In this wayward, 3-hr. movie version, Director John Ford dehydrates history and tosses in some sappy ideas of his own. The worst of them asserts that the Indians were accompanied by a conscientious Quaker lass (Carroll Baker) obviously all done up to join a grand ole opry. "That's pretty stylish for a Quaker, friend Deborah," remarks Army Officer Richard Widmark, eying her finery...
...onetime Princeton basketball player who practiced law for ten years in New Richmond, Wis., Doar is a model of raw courage. At Ole Miss with Chief U.S. Marshall McShane, when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes...
...Mississippi State: a 20-17 victory over Mississippi, favored (by 10 points) and Bluebonnet Bowl-bound; at Oxford, Miss. Trailing 6-3 at half time (on a 48-yd. field goal by State's Justin Canale), Ole Miss rallied for 14 points in the second half, still lost to its cross-state rival for the first time in 18 years-ever since Johnny Vaught, the nation's winningest major college coach, took over as boss of the Rebels...
Though on leave at Notre Dame this year, Silver wishes to return to Ole Miss, where he has taught history since 1936. A select committee of the University's Board of Trustees is currently weighing his record, and Silver therefore warned his listeners to expect "a very boring speech...