Word: harlan
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Died. Agnes Harvey Stone, 85, widow of U.S. Chief Justice (1941-46) Harlan Fiske Stone; in Washington...
Horizon. Says Managing Editor William Harlan Hale, Yaleman, biographer of Horace Greeley, onetime (1934-35) FORTUNE writer: "There appears to be a greater and greater inclination on the part of the public to sample the fruits of civilization. Other magazines fulfill bits and pieces of this hunger, but none devotes itself entirely to the whole vast need." Catering to U.S. cultural hunger comes easily to Horizon. Its parent is the bustling American Heritage Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation...
...trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the Alabama contempt conviction as a violation of the constitutional rights of N.A.A.C.P. members. Said the opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan: "Freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the 'liberty' assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association...
...sharp dissent, written by Justice Tom Clark, concurred in by Justices Harold Burton, John Marshall Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker: 1) the Secretary of State is authorized by precedents reaching back to 1856 to preside over passports, period-and never more so than in times of national emergency, and that 2) President Truman's declaration of national emergency, proclaimed in 1950, is still in specific effect, thereby giving the Secretary of State wider discretion over passports...