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...Lewis won his second Pulitzer for his articles on the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainright, which established the right of indigent defendants to have public defenders...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL. | Title: Champion of Underdogs | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

Maybe folk had to age a little to seem fresh again. Certainly everyone on the Garden stage wore his years well, but the music -- in the concert and on all these new records -- sounds particularly pertinent. The gifted Loudon Wainright III lays down a raucous, respectful tune called Talking New Bob Dylan on his fine album called History (Charisma). "You keep right on changin' like you always do," he sings to Dylan, "and what's best is the old stuff still all sounds new." The thought could stand for the classic material on Good as I Been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Folk Back Home | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Plan B had been drawn up by Fisby's boss, Colonel Wainright Purdy III, "a man with a clearly defined mission in the Army- he was reaching for the stars." Behind Purdy loomed the formidable figure of Mrs. Purdy, president of the Tuesday Club of Pottawattamie, Ind. It was she who had persuaded the colonel to organize a Woman's League for Democratic Action among the Okinawan ladies, and to suggest model menus for the league's meetings (chicken aspic and salmon loaf garnished with water cress, fruit compote and other delicacies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Clean Fun on Okinawa | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...Freshman summary: Foster (H) defeated McLanahan (Y) 3-2; Kempner (Y) defeated Boericke (H) 3-1; Fox (Y) defeated Emerson (H) 3-1; Wainright (Y) defeated Cabot (H) 3-1; Mead (H) defeated Pettit (Y) 3-0; Bartle (H) defeated Weeks (Y) 3-0; Chandler (Y) defeated Earle (H) 3-2; McLoed (H) defeated Dodge (Y) 3-0; McLean (Y) defeated Weare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Shellacks Varsity Racqueteers 9-0, Tops Freshman Squad, 5-4 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Hardy Family pictures-which have grossed M.G.M. well above $20,000,000 against an investment of around $4,000,000-will probably not be found in the story of any one picture, certainly not in this one. This time Andy (Mickey Rooney) is on his way to Wainright College -a small-town boy, frantically determined to get started right. On the train he becomes flirtatiously embroiled with no less than three blondes, in plain view of his suave future dean (Herbert Marshall), who cruelly chooses to remain incognito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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