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WHEN YOU walk into the Alumni Records Office and ask for information about Harry A. Blackmun '29, they hand you a small brown file card. The top line says "130140-Lowell." The rest of the card tells you that Blackmun was born in Nashville, Indiana on Nov. 12, 1902, the son of Corwin Manning and Theo Huegelf Blackmun, that he graduated summa cum laude in 1929, took a law degree in 1932, and is now a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit...
...Harry Blackmun did not make a deep impression on Harvard while he was here. Very few of his contemporaries even remember him, and those who do are suprised when they heard of his nomination. The reaction of one of his classmates, a New York businessman, is typical: "He was a quiet, self-contained, almost monastic type of student-always got his A. I would not have picked him as the man most likely to succeed-I would have picked him as head of the math department of some small Midwestern college...
...Blackmun kept a low profile as an undergraduate. The houses were not in existence, so he lived in a dormitory, where he kept to himself. His only undergraduate organizations were Phi Beta Kappa, and a fraternity called Lambda Chi Alpha, which folded in 1932 and took its records with it. He held four different scholarships, and won a Doctor in 1929. He worked his way through Harvard, running the motorboat for the crew and tutoring, and had very little time left over for activities. As one of his classmates put it: "He wasn't interested in athletics-he couldn...
...censorship. Justices John M. Harlan and Byron White have argued that states should be allowed greater latitude in enforcing their own standards of obscenity and Chief Justice Warren Burger agrees. The key votes could be those of Thurgood Marshall, who joined the court after Fanny Hill, and Harry Blackmun who may well be confirmed before the Maryland case is disposed...
Unlike her husband, Dottie Blackmun proudly claims to be a "strict constructionist"-in the clothes designing she does as a creative hobby. She and a friend operate a custom dressmaking shop called "The Designing Women," in which they turn out fashionable clothes and teach the art to others. Mrs. Blackmun is excited about the probable move to Washington. "I'm going to have lots of fun because everywhere we go in Washington, I'll have to create a new outfit," she says. None of those who know Judge Blackmun have any fear that the Senate will keep Dottie...