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Richard B. Stewart, a third-year student, will clerk for Associate Justice Potter Stewart (no relation), Margaret J. Corcoran '62 will work for Associate Justice Hugo L. Black, James Loken will serve as an aid to Associate Justice Byron R. White, and Burt Rein will clerk for Associate Justice John M. Harlan...
Missing Skipper. As for passengers' charges that Captain Byron Voutsinas, the Castle's 33-year-old Greek skipper, disappeared after the order to abandon ship, the skipper explained that the flames had cut him off from the stern of the ship, where most passengers were huddled. So, said Voutsinas, he climbed into a lifeboat intending to reboard her astern, but decided instead to carry injured passengers in the boat to the rescue ship Finnpulp. Another reason for accompanying them, his lawyer maintained, was to ask the Finnpulp to radio an S O S to other ships-which...
Adventure impelled Daniel Boone, in his eternal quest for a solitary fire near a fountain of sweet water, to move ever westward. Lord Byron, who had more than a passing acquaintance with adventure, eulogized Boone and his breed...
...terms, the 20th century seems more death-ridden than any other. Yet mass death is strangely impersonal; an 18th century hanging at Tyburn probably had more immediate impact on the watching crowd than the almost incomprehensible statistics of modern war and calculated terror have today. In the last century, Byron, Shelley, Keats and a whole generation of young poets haunted by romanticism and tuberculosis could be "half in love with easeful Death," wooing it as they would woo a woman. Even before World War I, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke could still yearn for "the great death" for which...
...problems-solvable or not-that U.S. traffic has generated, none is worse than the shameful web of immorality and ineptness that has come to entangle the enforcement and the court procedures of traffic laws. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White last month startled a meeting of state bar association presidents in Miami with a stinging attack on traffic courts...