Word: voelker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish...
...unlike the reader, bury their misgivings. The plot is hand-me-down-hostile columnist, incriminating photograph, Communist smear-and between, Traver rambles on with flatfooted passion about half a hundred worthy causes dear to his heart. So dear to his heart, in fact, that Traver (in real life John Voelker) resigned as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to write this book. He should have stayed on the bench...
...Hall and Louisville, Ky., Fine Arts, Ann C. Richards of Warner House and New York City, Fine Arts, Joan C. Rigney of Everett House and Newburyport, Social Relations, Julie Roy of Briggs Hall and Boston, History and literature, Mrs. Anita B. Van vector of Cambridge, English, and Kathryn L. Voelker of Moors Hall and Columbus, Ohio, Biology...