Word: wellman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching-to head a blue-ribbon study of higher education in the U.S., with the option of making it either a part-time or full-time job. As Kerr's interim successor, one of his longtime aides, Senior Vice President Harry Wellman, 66, stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender of university autonomy. Insisting that he will not be "a mere housekeeper," he vowed to "maintain and strengthen...
Charles H. Wellman '22 waived his right to counsel. When his turn to question the first witness came, he asked, "Is it not true that the whole foundation of the case is the unfair and ..." The judge cut him off, ruled the question irrelevant, and excluded it. "Then sir," said Wellman, "justice is excluded...
Parker warned Wellman that any future comments in that vein would be taken as contempt of court. Thereafter, Wellman put forward the same question to each prosecution witness, but said nothing when Parker excluded...
Exploring this neglected part of the U.S. frontier with the help of diaries and a somewhat perfervid dramatic style, Paul Wellman, a novelist and historian of the West, has produced a lively account of a criminal empire which "exerted an influence of bale and woe for a full generation and held all of interior America in a web of terror...
...banks of the Ohio on the Kentucky-Illinois border. More than 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep, the cave provided all that a hardened criminal could ask for: prostitutes "none cranny, gambling in another; heaps of counterfeit coin; and an escape hatch in the rear. The cave, Wellman writes, was the "lair of the worst cutthroats, freebooters and gallows-birds this continent ever witnessed...