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...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
...Argument." Other British journalists took it more calmly. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Even the greatest partisans of Churchill and Montgomery must grant General Eisenhower's fair-mindedness and equable temper ... It is an honest, sincere book...
...keeps them that way is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), red-mustached William Bernard Murphy, 53, copydesk chief. A paper like the Daily News is only as good as its copy desk, and the desk is as good as its chief, who must combine speed, accuracy, zeal, bad temper, and a quick eye on guard for double meanings...
...second part of the book, Professor Joughin shows how society, both in the immediate locality and the rest of the world, reacted to this case. When the lines were drawn, the temper of both sides erupted in all the usual outlets of public opinion--newspaper columns, speeches, meetings, petitions, and floods of letters to the authorities. The pros and cons were divided into what Dos Passes called "Two Nations," and Professor Joughin uses this phrase as a title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance...
...novels, and plays which were concerned with the case. From beginning to end the Arts were entirely on the side of the defense, in general taking the view that two innocent and friendless men were being railroaded to the electric chair because their radical views conflicted with the conservative temper of the community. A notable exception to this rule was Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. As the dominant member of the three-man committee which Governor Fuller appointed to investigate the affair, his behavior at this time did not come up to his general reputation for fairness and lofty...