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...guilty. Friends and neighbors organized a defense committee. Writer Joan Barthel, who lived near by, became convinced of his innocence, told his story in New Times magazine and eventually wrote a book about the case. Money and help came from others with homes in Connecticut, including Novelist William Styron, Director Mike Nichols and Playwright Arthur Miller, who argued that Reilly's confession was simply "not believable...
Only in the intellectual fields of history and fiction has the South been brilliantly represented. But most of the luminaries left the South-Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Lillian Hellman, William Styron went to the North to write. Historians C. Vann Woodward, Julian Boyd and David Donald went to the North to teach. Explains one Deep South professor who moved away ten years ago: "Southern universities were not exactly bastions of freedom. Intellectuals could be severely hassled, and professors who held divergent views had to be either gutsy or masochistic to stay. It's difficult to seek or create...
...coverage from 1972's levels. The New York Times, for instance, put 15 reporters inside the hall, about half a dozen fewer than it had dispatched to Miami four years ago. Esquire, which in past years has recruited such literary lights as Jean Genet, Arthur Miller and William Styron to illuminate the proceedings, this time opted to leave the darkness undisturbed...
Well aware that it would take more prosaic evidence to convince a court, Miller and some friends-including Novelist William Styron and Director Mike Nichols-hired a new lawyer and a private detective and persuaded the New York Times to look into the case. Last week a story by Times Reporter John Corry detailed Reilly's movements on the fatal night. According to various witnesses (not all of whom, inexplicably, were called at the trial), the boy left a church meeting at about 9:40, dropped off a friend at 9:45, then made the five-minute drive...
...every recent national convention, literary superstars were on hand to gather impressions, mostly for publication later in magazines. Norman Mailer refused to tell anyone what he thought of the proceedings for fear of compromising a forthcoming article in LIFE. Novelist William Styron and Playwright Arthur Miller, on assignment from Esquire, agreed that Miami Beach '72 would be harder to write about than Chicago '68, which Styron covered for the New York Review of Books and Miller attended as a delegate. Also observing for Esquire were Soviet Journalist Guenrikh Borovik, who felt "the world does not need this much...