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...integration hotspots of 1956, Clinton, Tenn., was the hottest. Incited to riot by Yankee Racist John Kasper, Clinton roughnecks tried to chase Negro pupils away from high school, beat up a Baptist minister, forced Governor Frank Clement to call out the National Guard, and brought on a court case in which Kasper and six others were found guilty of criminal contempt (TIME. Aug. 5). Last week Clinton High School opened for the 1957-58 school year with eight Negroes present. It was a calm day: the troublemaking minority squelched, integration had been established in Clinton. Tennessee's next test...
...Edmunds, England. Famed British barrister and sometime (1922-24) Liberal Member of Parliament, Jowitt was Attorney General in the second Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...
Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement...
Elusive Harmony. In San Jose, Calif., Clement Lopez, after slugging his partner in a midnight duet and fracturing his skull, explained: "He was singing out of tune...
Also, Leo P. Kadanoff, Physics; David A. Kuhn, History and Literature; Alan I. Levenson, Social Relations; Joseph T. Leverich, Mathematics; John N. Loeb, Chemistry; Dale A. McNeill, Physics; Donald J. Marcuse, Fine Arts; Clement H. Moore, Philosophy and Government; and Royce Moser, Jr., Biology...