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Supreme Court justice from 1945 to 1958; of Parkinson's disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning headlines in 1950 when he wrote the opinion outlawing Jim Crow dining cars (the Negro table behind the curtain) on Southern railroads, one of the modern court's first major anti-segregation decisions...
...Barbara Castle, 53, Minister of Overseas Development. A pert redhead with a flair for fashion, she came from a Yorkshire Laborite family, was an ardent member of the old, deep-pink Popular Front Socialist League. Her idea of a Sunday in the park is addressing a crowd from a Trafalgar Square plinth. She has made all the Aldermaston ban-the-bomb marches, has long had a passion for emergent Africa, the purview...
...Time to Sing. Tall, rugged, dashing, Malaparte was one of a vanishing breed: the intellectual buccaneer in the manner of D'Annunzio, who bounced from one Great Cause to the next. After fighting in World War I, he became an ardent advocate of Fascism. In and out of favor with the regime, he joined the Allies in 1943, later tried to join the Communist Party but was brusquely turned down. He visited Red China in 1956 and came home bubbling with enthusiasm...
...William Sydnor says that those of us who are voting the Goldwater-Miller ticket are not Christians and are committing the sin of ardent nationalism. Since when, may we ask, is patriotism a sin? Evidently he believes that there is only one way to achieve brotherly love and world peace-by voting the Democratic ticket. May we suggest that he check into the personal integrity and character of both Mr. Goldwater and Mr. Johnson...
...ardent debater, I think that in the television debates Mr. Salinger had an edge from the start and perfect timing. Mr. Murphy had to be constantly reminded that his time was up. In the question-and-answer period, Murphy was inexcusably rude. The moderator quite fairly had to remind him of this. When Murphy made the generous gesture of offering Salinger time-as he said he "had taken some of [Salinger's]"-it was a grandstand play and left me untouched. P. C. ANTHONY San Diego...