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Nonetheless, Calhoun County Solicitor Clarence Williams had no open-and-shut case for the prosecution. He had no eyewitness. He had no murder weapon in court. His case rested primarily on the testimony of Jimmie Glenn Knight, 28, a smalltime hoodlum who by his own admission had turned in his buddies to collect a reward of $20,000 raised by Calhoun County citizens and $1,000 contributed by Governor George Wallace. A month had passed before Knight, in jail on burglary and grand larceny charges, decided to testify for the prosecution...
Osborne's anti-hero is Bill Maitland, a London solicitor hung up on booze, barbiturates and the bleak self-knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." He is pushing 40, a tooth-shy, flea-bitten leopard, all spots and no strength, restlessly, frantically, pacing the cage of his life-in-death. "In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost," wrote Dante; Inadmissible Evidence is, among other things, a threnody on the middle years, laced with caustic humor...
...directing the City Solicitor and Harvard attorneys to work out the legal details of the project, the Council twice voted unanimously in favor of the proposal. All that remains now is for the University and the City to sign a number of formal agreements and then for the Council to approve these agreements...
When Felix Frankfurter resigned in the summer of 1962. Schlesinger says Kennedy "inclined at first towards Freund" to replace him. Robert Kennedy '48, then attorney-general, urged the President to consider Archibald Cox, then solicitor-general and has since returned to Harvard as professor of Law. "Unhappy about choosing between these two men of high ability and comparable backgrounds" Kennedy instead appointed Arthur Goldberg, now ambassador to the United Nations...
Ernest J. Brown, professor of Law will teach the first week of the course. Both he and Archibald Cox '34, former Solicitor-General, will lecture on interstate commerce. Cox will follow Brown...