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William Jennings Bryan, the most famous orator of his day and three times candidate for president, prosecuted the case, while Clarence Darrow led the defense. Cole declared that the importance of the trial was reflected in the fact that it received more news coverage than any other trial up to...
Personality & Private Life: Sternly handsome, imposing in stature, personally charming, with pale blue eyes and a face that cartoonists can catch in a few lines. Approaches tasks with fierce vigor. Wears country lawyer suits, prefers milk to martinis. After death of first wife in 1951. married attractive, capable Olive Freeman...
First Marshal John A. Simourian, whose white shoes and trousers gleamed from beneath his somber gown, began the ceremonies with the introduction of George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, who delivered the invocation. Class Orator Robert W. Scrivner followed, who based his oration on "Veritas" and its meaning to...
Condemned as a Socialist, Mollet chose to meet the end like one. Wearily climbing the podium, he delivered a lackluster speech which revealed his own uncertainty about Algerian policy. Then, reaching into his pocket, he produced a brochure and like a park-bench orator began intoning: "I have here a...
Midway in his soul-saving New York crusade, Evangelist Billy Graham will go on TV. This Saturday (8-9 p.m., E.D.T.) on the ABC network, straight from Madison Square Garden, a Graham meeting will be telecast for the first time in the U.S. Cost of the program: $300,000, underwritten...