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...moral support of the presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair of Grandfather King George. Burbled Barber West: "He sat up like a little man while I went at it with the scissors. Didn't even squirm. Laughed when I tickled his ear with a comb...
...young politician, Judge Ardery told the expectant courtroom, was 34-year-old Ed Prichard, Princeton and Harvard Law School honor graduate, protégé of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, adviser of big shots like Fred Vinson and one of the New Deal's wonder boys...
Illegal evidence could be legally introduced in state trials, said the majority, in any state whose laws do not specifically outlaw it. If words mean what they say (a proviso that Justice Felix Frankfurter has sometimes disputed), the majority seemed to be saying that the protection of the Fourth Amendment does not extend to all citizens. The decision left 30 of the 48 states free to use the evidence that has to be tossed out of all federal courts. To compound the confusion, Justice Frankfurter added one more helpful remark to the majority opinion: if a state passes...
Lawyer Lloyd Stryker's voice lifted in pride and reverence last week. "Call Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter," he said. Dressed in an ordinary brown suit but robed in his uncommon prestige, little Justice Frankfurter stepped to the stand. He had come from the Supreme Court to Manhattan to be a character witness for Alger Hiss, his onetime Harvard law student, on trial in Federal Court for perjury. The Government had rested and Alger Hiss had begun his defense...
...Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born, oldest in years (66), who as a professor at the Harvard Law School in the '30s hatched out a brood of young New Deal pundits, and as a justice is a bouncing, argumentative, brilliant little man planted firmly on the roost of his vast knowledge...