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Kind Words for Matt. The six-page Courier, which sells for 10?, covers the news with a professionalism that belies the inexperience of its editors and their meager resources. Refusing to accept any money from civil rights groups, the paper raises what it can on college campuses in the North-about $43,000 to date. Advertising income amounts to an inconsequential $100 a week. The youthful twelve-man staff (down from a summer peak of 18, now that students have returned to college) works for $20-a-week salaries and the sheer exhilaration of it. "Coming down here was about...
...some of the best contemporary mystery writers remain curiously underappreciated. Among them are Englishman Andrew Garve (The Cuckoo Line Affair); John D. MacDonald, the O'Hara of the whodunit; Australia's Arthur W. Upfield, whose detective hero, Napoleon Bonaparte, is half aborigine; Donald Hamilton, whose Matt Helm is a sort of Yankee 007; and Ed McBain, a master of suspenseful prose, who in real life is Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle...
...their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including his father and brother-thereby joining a hardy band of colleagues in conscience across the country. Among...
...characters: the jury, all natives of Alabama except for one man, a transplanted Floridian; Circuit Judge Thomas Werth Thagard, 63, a gently humorous man with a long and respected record of public service; the soft-spoken prosecutor, Circuit Solicitor Arthur E. Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested...
Throughout, no fewer than 22 major characters clash, plot and love together. Matt Devlin is entertained by the bride of his brother, who dallies occasionally with the teen-age mistress of Matt's son Morgan. Morgan's married sister gets her kicks from his best friend, a mean and hungry panhandler who keeps disappearing into the arms that Morgan has just left. In New York, Joshua Ching's mistress is younger than his daughter Suky, who, in her turn, takes two men to heart, including Cousin Morgan, who, when in town from the West, shares a couple...