Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the 52 months required to shape that record, schools and offices and courts of law across the U.S. began to realize that Herbert Brownell. 62nd Attorney General, may very well turn out to be one of the best-and the one who will leave the most lasting impression upon his nation's legal history. The process of realization was slow and painful: Herbert Brownell, longtime master political planner, had to prove the hard way that he was worthy of being Attorney General Brownell...
Counselor Brownell soon displayed a real talent for efficient administration-and if there was anything the Department of Justice needed, it was efficient administration. Some of the cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in progress reports only once a year-and even then there was little reason to believe that anyone read them. Brownell instituted an elaborate IBM index system to tabulate reports-required monthly-so that Washington can now keep close track of every case at every stage of the legal game. Brownell...
...margins. Using the Princeton crew as a basis of comparison, it can be seen that Penn and Navy are practically even, with Harvard a close third. The Middies beat the Tigers by a foot on April 20 with the very good time of 8:45. Princeton then in turn beat Penn by the same margin and the Crimson by about one-half a length...
...move the grisly minor characters of Faulkner's theater. The druggist is running a dirty-picture seance. Bad niggers chase good niggers with carving knives, fall together into the same ditch and talk philosophy. Four grotesque little Indians (the offspring of a stray Snopes and an Apache woman) turn up out of nowhere, settle down in a cave and very nearly burn alive a citizen who tries to civilize them...
There is his agnostic doctor who offers Kansdorf morphine and a mercy killing. The doctor's wife had married him on the rebound when the man she really loved jilted her. This erstwhile suitor in turn became a Dominican friar, and to him Author Stolpe devotes a lengthy subplot. Father Perezcaballero is the bedeviled Graham Greene priest of the mislaid vocation. A brilliant preacher-intellectual, he has every gift but faith, all knowledge but that of the dimensions of his own pride. Brought to an appalled recognition of his vanity and emptiness, Perezcaballero somehow enables the dying Kansdorf...