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Party Post. Voros was never a party bigwig, although he rose to be appointed to the patsy post of campaign manager for Earl Browder in the 1936 presidential elections; it suited Voros, who at his intellectual best was very woolly on Marxist theory. This philosophical fuzziness saved him; he stubbornly remained human. Ordered to Spain in 1937, he was promoted to chief of the Anglo-American section of the historical section of the International Brigade. It seems to have been one of the party's mistakes. Voros did not have it in him to be an executioner...
...nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have an august, impersonal presence. But beneath those black robes beat the human hearts of men with very human worries, frustrations-and tempers. Chief Justice Earl Warren has a notably thin skin, and waspish Justice Felix Frankfurter can get under an elephant's hide. Last week the two tiffed on the bench...
...dispute that decision and. as he almost always does, added some pungent remarks to his written dissent. He chided the court for taking "an isolated sentence or two and making it color the whole trial" and for "turning a criminal appeal into a quest for error." On that. Earl Warren issued a rebuttal: "This is a lecture," he snapped. "This is a closing argument by a prosecutor to the jury. The purpose of reporting an opinion is to inform the public and is not for the purpose of degrading this court." Frankfurter, addressing the Chief Justice, made a dry reply...
...somebody on which they can at last found an infield. Harmon Killebrow is for real; he proved it last year with 31 homers after a late year start. Jim Lemon can hit for distance, Lennie Green for average, and Bob Allison, who should recover from sophomore slump, for both. Earl Battey is the best catcher in the A.L., and Camilio Pascual and Pedro Ramos are two of the top huriers...
...From "Winckelmann," an essay on the German art historian and archaeologist. -Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield...