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Everyone figured that Harry Truman would take his time selecting a new justice for the Supreme Court. But when newsmen trooped into the President's press conference last week, just five days after the death of Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, the President announced that he had already picked his man. The new justice would be Judge Sherman Minton of the U.S. circuit court of appeals, onetime big voice in New Deal mob scenes, onetime Senator from Indiana, longtime fast friend of Missouri's ex-Senator Harry Truman...
Even in the age of declining Supreme Court prestige, the appointment had its note of irony. In Franklin Roosevelt's vain but tumultuous campaign to pack the nation's highest court with added New Dealing justices, no man raised a louder voice for the White House enterprise than burly, boot-jawed "Shay" Minton. As a result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle...
...Nazis make him head of their Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music) in 1933. He resigned when the Nazis irritated him by criticizing his "non-Aryan" librettists, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (who had died in 1929) and Stefan Zweig. Last year, Strauss was finally cleared by a denazification court...
...Leahy's quarterback is the man about whom the play revolves. Leahy finds that new quarterbacks learn five times as quickly on a basketball court indoors. By wearing sneakers indoors, they have more traction and develop more self-confidence in their ability to spin and cut. At Notre Dame, the gym is also used for pass-catching drills, with passers bouncing footballs off the backboards; it makes Leahy's players more adept at grabbing deflected passes during a game...
Died. Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, associate justice of the Supreme Court since 1943; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in York Village, Me. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...