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Jean Gannett Williams' legacy was loaded with liabilities-but not of the financial sort. Her credentials were meager: one year's apprenticeship, one press junket through Europe. Buffed to a high private-school gloss at Masters School and Bradford Junior College, she seemed miscast in a man'...
Ames, Iowa
Rhyme Does Not Pay. In Ames, Iowa, George Grooms mailed in a fine for overtime parking, wrote on the envelope:
Two legal scholars, James W. Hurst and George O. Sayles, have received the James Barr Ames Award, the Law School announced today. The prize, established in 1898, is awarded every four years "for a meritorious essay or book on some legal subject."
The despair of corn-belt grammarians, Democratic Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless ("the Democrats have did") is also the despair of Iowa Republicans, still smarting at Loveless' conquest of the traditionally Republican state capital in 1956. Pitted against Loveless this year is tall, lean, scholarly William G. Murray, 55, professor...