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...with every hobo or sheepherder he encounters and detesting most churchmen, policemen and lawyers-a sad conclusion grows. It is all very well to be down on the sanctimonious likes of John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and Francis Cardinal Spellman (his top three detestees). But Douglas, the longest-sitting Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939 through the present), has grown disconcertingly righteous about his lifelong anti-Establishment views...
Yesterday's finals in intramural boxing proved it's not who gets there firstest with the mostest, but who takes the mostest for the longest...
Everett saved his two trump cards for the second act, but he revealed to his attuned audience a series of high card student performers who injected new life into some of the old jazz standards. The two numbers which lingered longest in Sander's hot summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll...
...reputation for being tough but fair, abruptly ordered the company to stop its discharges-period. But last week Reserve's lawyers, arguing that the action would cause "irreparable damage" to the company and the local economy, won a stay of that order. Result: what is already the longest environmental trial in U.S. history will go back to the courts...
...hopefully petitioning God for the return of his dead mother. In Something You Just Don't Do in a Club, a lawyer's starchy presumption of friendship and honor among his fellows sets him up to be cheerfully bilked by the club deadbeat. In Last Things, the longest and most affecting piece in the book, the indomitably optimistic and innocent scion of a New York banking family prevails over financial ruin, dislocation, infidelity and the murder of a friend by simply outlasting them...