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...cancer out there, with the doctor operating every day." To ward off robberies, Harlem merchants?almost all of them blacks?often stay open 24 hours a day. But the longer they are around, the more chance there is that they will be assaulted. One all-night grocer, a genial man in his 60s who was shot...
Died. Tom Campbell Clark, 77, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-1967); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. The genial, Texas-born Clark came to Washington in 1937 and rose quickly in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including...
MARVIN JOSEPHSON, 50, appears to be the antithesis of the popular image of an agent, but, unlike many of the modern breed who prefer euphemisms for their trade, he readily admits he is one. Soft-voiced, genial, unhurried and conservatively dapper, he launched International Creative Management in 1955 with $100 in capital and two clients, Robert Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) and Newscaster Charles Collingwood. Since then, Josephson has built I.C.M. into a $30 million-a-year multinational company, embracing agents, a concert-booking bureau and a TV station. His 2,250 clients include Actor Laurence Olivier, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Musician Isaac...
...Pillars. South Korea's Prime Minister Choi Kyu Hah, a genial bear of a man, calls the U.S. troops in Korea and Europe "two pillars of policy" that deter Russia from any adventures either eastward or westward. In his view, as long as both pillars stand, Russia must be cautious. If one is removed, Russia may feel free to behave differently...
...presidency was on rare display around Washington last Thursday. First there was the 37th President, deposed Richard Nixon, quoted as saying in a David Frost interview that a President was above the law. Before noon No. 38, Gerald Ford, now a genial Palm Springs jock, was traveling nostalgically through the corridors of power on his second visit as a private citizen to the place he wished he had never left...