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...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...
...trial-his fourth-because of a legal error that technically violated the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against forced selfincrimination. The error: when Stewart testified at his third trial, the prosecutor asked him whether it was true that he had not testified at his first two trials. Felix Frankfurter leaned forward to 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...
...Overzealous Participation." To U.S. District Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr., 54, of Massachusetts, such tirades are nothing new: he has a positive talent for controversy. Sharp-minded and sharp-tongued, he is a former president of Harvard's Board of Overseers, has been described by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter as "one of the most brilliant law students I ever...
...slum kid's Harvard, New York City's tuition-free City College has produced such men as Financier Bernard Baruch and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Started 114 years ago, it sparked the founding of six more colleges to form a huge municipal system that now has 91,450 students. By winning the right to grant doctorates, the system this month became "the world's largest university." This week City University installed its first chancellor: John Rutherford Everett, 42, former president of Virginia's little (675 women) Hollins College, who calls his new job "probably...
Collectors' Items? It was Justice Felix Frankfurter who brought down the court-and the house. "Can you go into any drugstore in Hartford, as you can in the wicked city of New York, and buy contraceptives?" Not to his personal knowledge, replied Cannon cannily. The operative word was "personal."' Virtually every Connecticut drugstore sells condoms freely, and most sell diaphragms and spermicidal jellies and creams right along with teddy bears and cosmetics...