University Of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Law Professor Ray Guzman is in full "Paper Chase" mode. His lecture on the rules of evidence is clipping along, he is surprising students with sudden questions -- "Miss Doherty, how would you rule?" -- and he's jumping from case to case to illuminate the finer points of admissibility.Guzman is training the next generation of lawyers with this time-honored, doze-off-and-die method, much as he's done almost continuously since the 1960s here at the University of Arkansas Law School.

Allen Ramsey Beard, a retired actuary and World War II veteran, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Wednesday at his Riderwood home. He was 81. Mr. Beard was born in Little Rock, Ark., and raised in Augusta, Ark. He left during his senior year at the University of Arkansas to enlist in the Air Force. He served in southern Italy with the 15th Air Force as a bombardier aboard B-17 Flying Fortresses. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of captain. He remained active in the Air Force Reserve and had attained the rank of major at the time of his retirement.

Archbishop Spalding's Jeff Paxson has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at Towson State University.A starter since his freshman year, Paxson enters his senior year with the Cavaliers with 73 career hits, including 23 doubles, two triples, two home runs and 56 RBI.As a junior last season, Paxson hit .422 and was selected to the All-MSA A Conference team and the Anne Arundel County Sun's All-County squad.At the time of his signing, Paxson was being recruited by the U. S. Naval Academy, Maryland, George Washington university and Princeton, as well as Wake Forest, the University of Arkansas and the University of Indiana.

Joan Mary Henn, who made international news in 1946 when she and her three brothers arrived in a multiple birth at St. Agnes Hospital, died Tuesday at her Albuquerque, N.M., home from uterine cancer. She was 53. An early childhood special education teacher for the Albuquerque public schools, she had been head women's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the daughter of Charles J. Henn Jr., a Baltimore bookbinder and Army sergeant who married the London-born Dorothy Geast, a member of the British army.

Ronald H. BrownSecretary of CommerceBorn: 1941, Washington, D.C.Educated: Middlebury College, B.A.; St. John's University School Law, J.D.Career: former deputy executive director, National Urban League; former chief counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; partner in the Washington law firm Patton, Boggs & Blow; chairman, Democratic National Committee.Reputation: A pragmatic, diplomatic man who can be hard-nosed. A skilled negotiator.Quote: "His approach is designed to get the job done." -- attorney Clifford Alexander.

Allen Ramsey Beard, a retired actuary and World War II veteran, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Wednesday at his Riderwood home. He was 81. Mr. Beard was born in Little Rock, Ark., and raised in Augusta, Ark. He left during his senior year at the University of Arkansas to enlist in the Air Force. He served in southern Italy with the 15th Air Force as a bombardier aboard B-17 Flying Fortresses. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of captain. He remained active in the Air Force Reserve and had attained the rank of major at the time of his retirement.

Jeffrey Lynn, 86, who played a war buddy of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney in the film "Roaring Twenties," died Nov. 24 in Los Angeles. He made his debut in the 1938 film "Four Daughters," and later appeared in the 1939 hit "Roaring Twenties." He also appeared in "Yes, My Darling Daughter," and "Letter to Three Wives." On television, he had roles on the soap opera "Secret Storm" and in "Remington Steele" and "Barnaby Jones."Dr. John H. C. Ranson, 57, a surgeon at the New York University Medical Center who developed a widely used system for predicting the outcome of pancreatic disease, died Thursday at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's campaign organization acknowledged yesterday that the Democratic presidential nominee discussed options to the draft with Sen. J. W. Fulbright's office in 1969, when Mr. Clinton was seeking a spot in the University of Arkansas Reserve Officers Training Corps to avoid being drafted.Asked whether Mr. Clinton had gone to Mr. Fulbright for help entering the ROTC, Dee Dee Myers, the candidate's spokeswoman, acknowledged in a statement that Mr. Clinton had "talked to the Fulbright people about what his options were and asked them to help him ascertain those options, but he didn't ask anyone to influence anyone on his behalf."

Joan Mary Henn, who made international news in 1946 when she and her three brothers arrived in a multiple birth at St. Agnes Hospital, died Tuesday at her Albuquerque, N.M., home from uterine cancer. She was 53. An early childhood special education teacher for the Albuquerque public schools, she had been head women's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the daughter of Charles J. Henn Jr., a Baltimore bookbinder and Army sergeant who married the London-born Dorothy Geast, a member of the British army.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Rookies Tom Gugliotta and Doug Overton led Washington in its final preseason game by combining for 30 points in the Bullets' 104-98 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks last night.Gugliotta scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a game before 2,100 on the University of Tennessee campus. Overton scored 16 points, and Rex Chapman added 15.Although the Bullets won, coach Wes Unseld wasn't completely satisfied with his team's performance."I was not happy with the execution," Unseld said.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Law Professor Ray Guzman is in full "Paper Chase" mode. His lecture on the rules of evidence is clipping along, he is surprising students with sudden questions -- "Miss Doherty, how would you rule?" -- and he's jumping from case to case to illuminate the finer points of admissibility.Guzman is training the next generation of lawyers with this time-honored, doze-off-and-die method, much as he's done almost continuously since the 1960s here at the University of Arkansas Law School.

Jeffrey Lynn, 86, who played a war buddy of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney in the film "Roaring Twenties," died Nov. 24 in Los Angeles. He made his debut in the 1938 film "Four Daughters," and later appeared in the 1939 hit "Roaring Twenties." He also appeared in "Yes, My Darling Daughter," and "Letter to Three Wives." On television, he had roles on the soap opera "Secret Storm" and in "Remington Steele" and "Barnaby Jones."Dr. John H. C. Ranson, 57, a surgeon at the New York University Medical Center who developed a widely used system for predicting the outcome of pancreatic disease, died Thursday at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock.

There's the man from Fayetteville who couldn't afford to donate enough in order to qualify for basketball season tickets, so he enrolled four years ago at the University of Arkansas -- at age 26 -- to get into home games as a student.There's the woman from Springdale who started going to Arkansas games back in the 1940s with her husband. Though her husband died, and her eyesight is nearly gone, she still goes to games, listening from her 10th-row seat on a transistor radio.And there's the kid from Hope who left home for Yale and Oxford, returned to practice law and become governor, then left again to run the country and make a recent cover of Sports Illustrated, wearing his Arkansas basketball jacket.

DALLAS -- Understand this about the President of the United States: When it comes to University of Arkansas basketball, he is just shy of "Bill from Washington, hello. . . . "Just shy of a vein-popping, opinion-spewing, talk show get-a-lifer."President Clinton is a fan, a big, serious, rah-rah fan," Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson said yesterday. "He loves the Hogs."Your president, the First (Bubba) Fan.He is so enamored of Richardson's Razorbacks that he willingly blew the labor vote yesterday by standing and cheering from a midcourt seat as the Hogs advanced to the Final Four by holding off Michigan, 76-68, in the Midwest Regional final at Reunion Arena.

Ronald H. BrownSecretary of CommerceBorn: 1941, Washington, D.C.Educated: Middlebury College, B.A.; St. John's University School Law, J.D.Career: former deputy executive director, National Urban League; former chief counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; partner in the Washington law firm Patton, Boggs & Blow; chairman, Democratic National Committee.Reputation: A pragmatic, diplomatic man who can be hard-nosed. A skilled negotiator.Quote: "His approach is designed to get the job done." -- attorney Clifford Alexander.

Archbishop Spalding's Jeff Paxson has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at Towson State University.A starter since his freshman year, Paxson enters his senior year with the Cavaliers with 73 career hits, including 23 doubles, two triples, two home runs and 56 RBI.As a junior last season, Paxson hit .422 and was selected to the All-MSA A Conference team and the Anne Arundel County Sun's All-County squad.At the time of his signing, Paxson was being recruited by the U. S. Naval Academy, Maryland, George Washington university and Princeton, as well as Wake Forest, the University of Arkansas and the University of Indiana.

STRATFORD, Conn. -- President Bush raced across the country yesterday, trying to stir last-minute doubts about Bill Clinton as new polls suggested that the president was losing ground to his challenger.The president said he believed in "my heart of hearts" that he will win tomorrow. But he sounded tired and dispirited after he was told the latest CNN/USA Today daily tracking poll showed his support receding after a surge last week put him in a virtual tie with Mr. Clinton in the same poll.

DALLAS -- Understand this about the President of the United States: When it comes to University of Arkansas basketball, he is just shy of "Bill from Washington, hello. . . . "Just shy of a vein-popping, opinion-spewing, talk show get-a-lifer."President Clinton is a fan, a big, serious, rah-rah fan," Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson said yesterday. "He loves the Hogs."Your president, the First (Bubba) Fan.He is so enamored of Richardson's Razorbacks that he willingly blew the labor vote yesterday by standing and cheering from a midcourt seat as the Hogs advanced to the Final Four by holding off Michigan, 76-68, in the Midwest Regional final at Reunion Arena.

STRATFORD, Conn. -- President Bush raced across the country yesterday, trying to stir last-minute doubts about Bill Clinton as new polls suggested that the president was losing ground to his challenger.The president said he believed in "my heart of hearts" that he will win tomorrow. But he sounded tired and dispirited after he was told the latest CNN/USA Today daily tracking poll showed his support receding after a surge last week put him in a virtual tie with Mr. Clinton in the same poll.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Rookies Tom Gugliotta and Doug Overton led Washington in its final preseason game by combining for 30 points in the Bullets' 104-98 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks last night.Gugliotta scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a game before 2,100 on the University of Tennessee campus. Overton scored 16 points, and Rex Chapman added 15.Although the Bullets won, coach Wes Unseld wasn't completely satisfied with his team's performance."I was not happy with the execution," Unseld said.