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...Amicus Humani Generis. When a little Taurum turns the White House putting green into a creeping shoulder-high jungle, Congressman Fairweather has some doubts about John Henry's sanity, but none about his product. At the city's main psychiatric clinic, the "chief head-candler" assures the congressman that John Henry's Rorschach test is "interesting, but not alarming." The congressman then points out to the young scientist that there are millions to be made out of his pay dirt. But John Henry is interested in no quid pro quo, prefers to be "an amicus humani generis...
...Several hundred thousand federal employees, representing every segment of our population, work and live in the District of Columbia area. It is the established policy of the United States that its employees shall be hired, and shall work together, without regard to any differences of race or color." As amicus curiae (friend of the court), Brownell sided with the District corporation council in appealing for reversal of a lower court decision invalidating an old District of Columbia anti-segregation ordinance...
Died. Thomas Heney Malone Jr., 69, Vanderbilt University law professor, leading Tennessee lawyer, an amicus curiae on Clarence Darrow's side in the 1925 Scopes evolution trial; in Nashville...
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