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...arguments will be held both evenings in Langdell Hall at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public without charge. The decisions will single out as victors over thirty other clubs in a two year competition before student courts, the two ablest senior teams, which will meet for the final arguments in January...
Court Building, does his work. The apartment, like the Cape Cod cottage where the Justice still spends his summers, has been a meeting place at one time or another for a generous quorum of most of the ablest younger legal minds in the U. S. There Justice Brandeis will this week celebrate his 81st birthday in the assurance that the next years in his grand-scale life may still be the greatest...
Last week the same Albert Sterner, now 74, held an exhibition of 18 paintings and 32 prints, drawings and monotypes at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries. The art world paid respectful attention, for Artist Sterner, who has been called the "ablest figure painter in America," is at least one of the ablest and most forceful draftsmen of the nude in the U. S. At last week's exhibition his portrait heads, still lifes and landscapes were unexceptionable, but several of his nudes showed that his rapid, unerring draftsmanship has not faded with the years...
Charlie Gehringer, 34, of the Detroit Tigers, who for twelve years has quietly functioned as one of baseball's ablest second basemen and last season led his league in batting (.371), as the American League's Most Valuable Player. New York Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, 22, placed second...
Though Philip Murray and George Harrison are two of the ablest labor negotiators in the land, their assignment was nearly superhuman. They strained for cordiality, addressed each other as "George" and "Phil." They posed reluctantly for newsreel cameramen shaking hands-without sound effects. Mustering a sour smile, Phil Murray observed: "This will look pretty fishy." And George Harrison answered: "Yes, when they see this the rank & file will decide here's where we sold them down the river...