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NEW BERN-CRAVEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY The N£W BERN Regional Library 1+00 Johnson St. Rev; Bern HC 28^60 UJ (JU PUBLI8HID WIIKLY IN THI HIART OP IA8TIRN NORTH CAROLINA 5^ Per Copy VOLUME 14 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 28. 1972 NUMBER 45 Yesterday was when John Kleran. a man whose massive knowledge is probably unequaled in the natitm, if not the world, visited New Bern and hinted at nearby Camp Bryan. Celebrities, in past years, were almost commonplace at this famed mecca for those intent on enjoying the great outdoors. Our own favorite recoiiection is fishing there with Ted vnUiams and hunting with Charlie Keller. Ted has snared thousands of members of the flnny Mbe on expeditions to far removed [ >iaces. Even so, wading in the ake, he jumped up and down and shouted exdtediy when he caught his first bass in Craven County. But, getting back to Kieran, when it comes to brains he has to be ciassed as exceedingly extra special. Much of his distinguished care^ (he has since retired) was spent as sports editor of the New York Times, but he is an auttimrity in at least 200 unrelated fields. Perhaps no one, over a period of more than 60 years, has done as much reading in this land of ours. His tastes are as varied as the colors of the rainbow, ranging firom profound classics to stance nursery rhymra. Books from his own prolific pen include An Introduction To Wild Flowers, An Introduction To Trees, An Introduction To Birds, The Story d The Olympic Games, The Sporting Scene, and Not Under Oath. None of his volumes reveals his inner heart to a greater degree than his Books I Love, in which he not only names his 100 favorite works but, in his inimitable manner of getting close to the reader, spim tales of authors he has known per sonally. Heading his list of preferred books is the Bible, followed by the complete works of Shakespeare, Homer’s The Iliad andThe(Myssy, selections from Plato, a collection of Greek plays, and Plutarch’s Lives. Don’t consider Kieran far above your literary at mosphere, just because you’ve gone through life without sharing his enthusiasm for such reading matter, excepting of coursetheBible. If youdelvein books at ail, you and Kieran must certainly have something in common. He loves Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cnsoe, and Lewis (droll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, along with Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Life on the Mississippi. Robert Lewis Stevenson’s Kidnapped and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick have had lasting fascination for him too, as well as Swift’s Gulliver’s Travds. HDs list also includes Dicken’s David Ck>pperfleld. To further demonstrate the fact that many of you have a meeting ground with this remarkable intellectual, he wouldn’t think of excluding Arthur C!onan Doyle’s series of Sherlock Holmes stories from (Continued on page 8) ONCE UPON A TIME—Hiring a good lawyer of decidedly distinguished appearance was no problem for New Bemians, oack in 1905. There weren’t any youngsters, still wet behind the ears, among the members of the Craven County Bar Association at that time, as you can tell by scan ning this photo from the Albert D. Brooks collec tion. Since the editor of The Mirror was still five years shy of being bom when the picture was made, we’ll have to depent upon somebody among our readers v4io is right smart old to identify all 15 of the gents seen here. Then as now, an attorney’s real or assumed dignity was something to count on, and it helped if you had the voice to quote or misquote profound passages from the Bible, making yourself sound like Moses reincarnated, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. In the manner of lawyers, and touring professional wrestlers, dating back to antiquity, these gladiators tried to rip each other asunder in the arena, but departed together in complete compatibility after court let out and the crowd had gone home. A fellow in those distant days didn’t have to chew tobacco to pass his bar examination, but a cud reposing in his jaw was calculated to be of considerable assistance in trials. Pausing to draw a bead on the nearest brass cuspidor intrigued jurors, took their mind off the weak points in a case, and gave you a chance to get your second wind. That year, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second term in the White House, the first Rotary Club hatched, and an ex pose by Ladies Home Journal revealed Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething babies contained morj^e, and was labeled poison in Great Britain.
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