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JUSTICE," said Daniel Webster, "is the great interest of man on earth." But the focus of interest shifts. In Webster's day it centered on the courts; trials were closely watched, judges were appraised, lawyers had their bands of knowing followers. The present interest in justice is spotty. It concentrates on the detection of criminals, on new statutes, and on the public-welfare services encompassed by the phrase "social justice." The courts are so neglected by the educators, the press and the public that reporters covering a rare sensation, such as the Sheppard trial, find that they have...
Q.E.D. In Denver, charged with driving an automobile with one arm around a woman, Murel Webster was acquitted after arguing that the woman was his wife and that it was therefore "not logical" that he should drive through town with his arm around...
When they are put under military command, as in the many laboratories of the armed services, they feel that they are misunderstood and their capabilities wasted. Said William Webster, executive vice president of the New England Electric System, twelve years a naval officer: "A military organization is a very trying climate for the best work of scientists...
...after Glasser's testimony, Lewis Webster Jones, president of the University, termed his actions "clearly in conflict with the policies of the University" and suspended him with pay, pending an investigation of the case by a special faculty committee and by the board of trustees...
...Riesman answers the anguished city editor who cried: "What we need around this place is a new set of cliches." No mantled prophet with the last word or the definitive system, Riesman describes his notion of character as "heuristic"-and that is the word for Riesman. It means, says Webster, "serving to discover or to stimulate investigation; -of methods of demonstration which tend to lead a person to investigate further by himself...