Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism and how it might affect his decisions in office...
...York's Judge Learned Hand, 87, completing his soth year on the federal bench. Traveling to Manhattan for the warm occasion were Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Attorney General William Rogers, and a host of the nation's leading lawyers. Attorney General Rogers read a letter to Hand from the President of the U.S.: "You have stood for that excellence and temperament essential to the achievement of equal justice under law." Learned Hand found his reply in a Shakespearean sonnet to Time: "This I do vow, and this shall ever be;/I will be true, despite thy scythe...
Divorced. Earl Russell Browder, 67, Kansas-born, sometime No. 1 U.S. Communist, 1936 and 1940 Communist candidate for U.S. President, who, following Moscow's sentiments, cooperated with capitalism during World War II, was purged when the party line shifted in 1946; by Gladys Browder, 67, whom he deserted in 1924; after 48 years of marriage, one son (Browder had three other sons by a Russian-born wife whom he married without troubling to get a U.S. divorce); in Kansas City, Kans...
Dissenting, Justice Hugo Black cracked that "This notion is too subtle for me to grasp," was joined in his usual hard core of liberals by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas. "The court apparently takes the position," charged Black, "that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence...
...sister and his five brothers. That afternoon at Lima's National Stadium, President Manuel Prado decorated him with the Sporting Laurel of Peru (First Degree). Olmedo posed with the Davis Cup. then played a fast exhibition match against a fellow Davis Cup team member, St. Louis' Earl Buchholz. Appropriately, Olmedo...