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...court, his lawyer described him as "the finest type of Californian." He had been president or chairman of ten companies, a director of 16, a member of the best clubs. But last week San Francisco's backslapping, bearlike Virgil David Dardi, 57, paced nervously in Manhattan's West Street jail, unable to raise $100,000 bail. He had just been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in one of the most ingeniously bizarre stock swindles in modern history-after the longest criminal trial in U.S. Federal Court history (TIME, Feb. 22). The activities of Dardi...
There are enough villains to populate Dante's Inferno: priests, bishops, mothers, fathers, Falangists, high society, low society, expatriates. Del Castillo is a kind of chatty Virgil who takes his readers on a tour of these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages...
...Virgil Copeland, president of the Southwest Citizens Association, a group of homeowners in Cascade Heights, finally went to Mayor Allen and suggested closing off two roads that run between the Negro and white areas to prevent encroachments by Negroes and act as a psychological stimulant to white buyers. Allen called in Negro leaders to discuss the possibility of erecting barriers. In return, the city would rezone 250 acres for Negro residential use. Understandably, the Negroes protested...
Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure...
Into Houston to visit the new, $90-million Manned Spacecraft Center that will be their headquarters by 1964 wheeled the seven Mercury astronauts. By way of welcome, 150,000 Texans lined a 1½-mile route as the seven-John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Leroy Cooper and Donald Slayton-drove by with their families. To Walt Schirra, hundreds held up six fingers for the number of orbits he is to make in the next U.S. space flight. The parade led to the Sam Houston Coliseum for a neighborly cookout at which 1,500 chickens...