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...battered old sedan wound its way along a narrow ribbon of dirt road in Clay County's back country. On the way, the former sheriff who had agreed to produce an authentic moonshiner spoke with real pride of the man's wares. "His whisky's good stuff-crystal clear," he said. "Stinks to high heaven, but if you can get past the smell, it'll set you on your head or butt faster 'n he'd blow your innards out for smiling courtin'-like at his daughters. When I was high sheriff...
While Jimmy Hoffa did his stretch at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, the place probably had the bluest-ribbon prisoners' committee ever seen behind U.S. bars. Hoffa organized it informally to hear and act on complaints. It included, according to him, L.B.J.'s former aide, Bobby Baker, serving one to three years for theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the Government, and Tammany Leader, Carmine DeSapio, who went to Lewisburg last year for two years on three counts of bribery, as well as a former Army colonel, several businessmen and a Ph.D. Recalls Hoffa: "We were very active...
...sort of expected to find a steely, crew-cut sergeant, but instead I was greeted by a mild, soft-spoken captain, who seemed as nervous as I. However, he did not exactly look effete behind three rows of medals, including a Vietnam War ribbon and a silver medal with "Expert" written on it, and he appeared to be a little surprised to see me fruiting in the door. After a few polite preliminaries, he looked at me and asked increduously. "Are you really interested in becoming a Marine?" I explained that I "want to keep my options open...
...over the past several months, stories of police corruption in New York City have leaked out to the public. Last week the most sordid story to date was told by the first witness at hearings held by the blue-ribbon Knapp Commission, which is investigating crime in the department. William Phillips, on the force for 14 years, explained how he and innumerable other cops had taken graft as casually as they had handed out parking tickets. Payoffs for criminal protection came as regularly as paychecks-and often amounted to a lot more. Far from working to cut down the city...
Newman's whole bearing suggested a seignioral poise-the big square head thrust forward, the snowy walrus mustache, the steel-rimmed monocle dangling on a black ribbon that neatly bisected his shirt front, vertical black on white, like a detail from one of his own pictures. This was fitting; when he died last year at 65, he left a body of work that seemed the epitome of aristocratic breadth and daring. Newman's canvases, with their engulfing fields of color traversed by vertical "zips," had become intrinsic to the look of American painting. Artists as diverse...