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...courtroom that F. Lee Bailey emerged as Patty Hearst's top lawyer last week, shortly after joining the defense team. One of the best, toughest and most flamboyant criminal lawyers in the nation, Bailey, at 42, is a loner, a leader who could no more be a second-stringer than Joe Namath could be a back-up quarterback...
TIME Geneva Stringer Robert Kroon, who interviewed TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the French Alps not long ago, still claims to receive all the transcendental soothing he needs from the music of J.S. Bach. In a modern Western hotel, surrounded by efficient American business types and electronic paraphernalia, Kroon recounts, the Maharishi seemed a bit uprooted, "like a flamingo in an Arctic landscape," but he still registered as an affable and reasonably forthcoming personality...
...attended the press conference where FBI Agent Charles Bates announced the capture of Patty Hearst, later talked with members and friends of the Hearst family and also coordinated bureau coverage. Correspondent John Austin visited the scenes where the arrests were made and also filed a running chronology of events. Stringer Paul Ciotti maintained an almost constant vigil on the street near the scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should...
Assassinations, even unsuccessful attempts on the lives of American leaders, strike so swiftly and frighteningly that TIME correspondents, like other journalists, need no marching orders from the home office before starting work. On the almost fatal scene with the President Friday morning was TIME'S veteran Sacramento stringer Tom Arden. As soon as Lynette Fromme's gun was wrested away, Arden began gathering eyewitness accounts of the attempt. San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce took off for Sacramento and covered Fromme's midafternoon arraignment. Correspondent John Austin remained in San Francisco gathering background material. The Los Angeles...
...French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed a New York Herald Tribune reporter, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. A year later, Billings became national affairs editor and in 1933 managing editor...