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Last week a five-man Supreme Court majority (Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom Clark and William J. Brennan) handed down a decision that seemed to jostle McCulloch v. Maryland in the eyes of the four dissenting members (Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan, Harold Burton, Charles E. Whittaker). At issue: a property tax levied by the city of Detroit on the Murray Corp., a subcontractor manufacturing airplane parts for the U.S. Air Force. The city assessor counted as taxable property some $2,000,000 worth of parts, materials, etc., which were chargeable...
Shame on Reader Pat Brennan [Feb. 17] for comparing the accomplishments of Spellman, Sheen and Gushing with those of Dio, Anastasia and Luciano. However, may I point out to Pat that in both fields he mentioned-the Catholic Church and the underworld-Italians...
PATRICK F. X. BRENNAN Yonkers...
...Terry Brennan, Notre Dame coach, argued, "It's ridiculous. You have to fight hard from any spot on the field to get six points. Now you can get two more by going only three yards...
...acting is generally overacting. Among the few who were exceptions to the general awkwardness was Ann Brennan, whose nearly perfect performance of Annabella was often a saving grace for the play. Thomas Lumbard lived up to a small part with dignity, and James Swan, Gerald Malone, and William Bruckner were usually respectable. Benette Schultz played the juicy role of a maid with an occasional flair...