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...killed off along the way in drownings, fights, and wars, until at the end the only Prescott left is an octogenarian Debbie Reynolds. Many of the juiciest roles are just a drop in the Cinerama bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln...
...decision splintered the court even more than usual. Only Chief Justice Earl Warren joined Goldberg without ado. Hugo Black and William O. Douglas went along, but added their own farther-reaching view that "Congress has no power" to deprive a native-born citizen of citizenship. William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a separate concurring opinion. The other four Justices dissented, in two separate opinions, basically on the ground that, as Potter Stewart put it, loss of citizenship is not "punishment in the constitutional sense of that term," but an effect of a "regulatory measure" enacted to deal with a "basic problem...
...from a Detroit trucking concern. According to the indictment, Detroit's Commercial Carriers, Inc. in 1949 set up a Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers. All the Test Fleet stock was transferred to Mrs. Hoffa and the wife of Owen ("Bert") Brennan, a Teamster vice president who died in 1961; the two women discreetly used their maiden names of Josephine Poszywak and Alice Johnson...
...trial began seven weeks ago, and the record is already more than 3,000 pages long. Prosecution witnesses testified that Mrs. Brennan was rarely consulted and Mrs. Hoffa never, in the management of Test Fleet or of the Hobren (for Hoffa-Brennan) Corp., as Test Fleet was renamed in 1954. Rather, key decisions were made by Hoffa and Brennan. The Government contended that Hoffa profited greatly from Test Fleet but never contributed to financing the company. Ray Van Beckum, a former president of Commercial Carriers, testified that the lease arrangement was kept up in the interest of keeping the peace...
...officials to pin the label "Communist" on any organization. In effect, the proposal would have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...