Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Determined to break the log jam, Attorney General William P. Rogers told reporters at the American Bar Association convention in Miami last week that President Eisenhower has approved a bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope...
...Attorney General William P. Rogers: "The main hope for peace is that nations will be wise enough not to rely on sheer strength in dealing with each other but will move toward establishing systems based on considerations of law and justice in the resolution of international disputes ... It must be obvious to everyone that action in this field is long overdue." Specifically, Rogers urged the U.S. Senate to repeal the so-called Connally amendment, which seriously limits the U.S. in submitting disputes to international courts...
Only rarely does a new author's first book of short stories announce much besides one more young lady who had a sheltered adolescence or one more young gentleman who did not. An exception was William Saroyan's The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, which created such a stir in the '30s. Lover Man, by Alston Anderson, 35, may not come up to Saroyan's Daring Voting Man, but at least it occupies the same ballpark. With this series Anderson introduces himself not only as a first-class writer, but also as an observer...
Redding, Calif., Bridge Bay Summer Theater: William Inge's Picnic...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. An unembarrassed classicist provides the best English version yet of the Priapean satire by Nero's arbiter of elegance...