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Many lawyers take only a mechanistic view of law, Fisher said. "Many act more like guns for hire than statesmen or wise human beings," he commented...
...even fuller-fledged legends than before they came. For this is the time when academic sanctity deserts the cloisters of the American college, and when the square-cut military jaw or the hardened business countenance is to be seen under the mortar board of the Doctor of Letters. Generals, statesmen, merchants, lawyers, and engineers have their innings. They hear a few well-chosen words recounting their achievements and receive a few more letters which they will never use after their names...
...done with the emotions or with eloquent outbursts of feeling, but must be done by competent, fit men and women if industry is to be humanized, if education is to train the spirit, if Democracy is not to go down in defeat, we need not merely conspicuous statesmen and leaders, but ranks upon ranks of common people in every community with mental and moral preparedness...
...Pablo Casals whose performances, like fine wine, improve with age. And as musicians train their muscles for ever longer careers, an unprecedented number of older talents reign on the concert scene. While prodigies as young as 6 draw crowds with their youthful showmanship, many of music's eldest statesmen are over 80--and still playing their best...
DIED. JAKE HESS, 76, Southern gospel pioneer and early influence on Elvis Presley; in Opelika, Ala. The youngest of 12 children, Hess began singing in 1948 and starred in the seminal Christian music group the Statesmen Quartet. As a teenager in Memphis, Presley often attended Statesmen shows, and Hess later sang backup on the King's albums...