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...written as a movie script; the story is told in one hundred and forty-one scenes in the printed text, some lasting only a moment. Thomas sent his hypothetical cameraman up and down the streets of a whole city; Joseph Everingham, the adapter, Stephen Aaron, the director, and Webster Lithgow, the designer, have had to cram all this onto the double stage at Kresge. They have wisely stuck close to Thomas' original, and, having attempted the impossible, brought it off better than might have been expected...
...strategy is that it bypasses the Russell Amendment to Rule XXII. The major drawback is that it forces the issue not on the question of the filibuster, but on whether the Senate is a continuing body. In the past, the appeal of sitting in the selfsame, continuing Senate as Webster. Clay and Calhoun has been too compelling for many a Senator otherwise sympathetic to civil rights causes...
Among those on the squad are Dartmouth quarterback Bill Gundy, Princeton tailback Dan Sachs, Brown end Bill Traub Henn guard Frank Pisacane, Cornell tackle Ed Savitsky and halfback John Webster...
...married Pusey, and is now 17 Quincy Street's first lady. She majored in philosophy at Bryn Mawr, and quotes President Pusey as often childing her that "I've never met anyone who got less out of a major than you did." The President, however, is wrong, for one Webster definition of philosophy proves his error: "Calmness of temper and judgment befitting a philosopher...
...claimed a frameup, but the key issue at the trial was whether or not the murder had been premeditated. Webster later conceded that he had struck Parkman with a stick of wood as a result of the later's abusiveness, but he stoutly maintained that he had not intended to kill him. The jury was out for only three hours. All Boston thrilled to see a Harvard professor kicking on the gallows of the Leverett Street jail...