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This thick volume of correspondence presents a unique over-the-shoulder view of the intimate relationship between the master politician of the New Deal and the great jurist who was his friend and adviser. The most startling aspect of that view is Felix Frankfurter's capacity for ladling out the adulation and his President's insatiable capacity for lapping it up. In their candor, the letters are an almost unexampled casebook of politics and history in the making...
...perhaps only slightly so, than the man he is replacing: Justice Tom Clark, 67, who retired last week after 18 years on the Supreme Court bench to avoid any semblance of conflict of interest now that his son Ramsey is U.S. Attorney General. Justice Clark, an undogmatic, plain-talking jurist, generally supported the court's civil rights decisions, but tended to side with the conservatives in cases such as Escobedo and Miranda, where the rights of accused criminals were involved...
...than any other actor and actually won two Oscars, as the stoic Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous (1937) and the warmhearted Father Flanagan in Boys' Town (1938), was also memorable as Hemingway's gnarled hero in The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and as a stern jurist in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...judgment of history: both in public achievement and private character, Sir Thomas was the greatest Englishman of his age. As a humanist and classical scholar, he ranked with Pico and Erasmus. As an author (Utopia), he became the first great social philosopher of the modern era. As a jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost...
Died. Florence Ellinwood Allen, 82, pioneer woman jurist, who, after a damaged nerve thwarted her ambition to be a concert pianist, turned to law in Ohio, where she became the nation's first woman to be elected a county prosecutor (1920), first woman elected to a state supreme court (1922) and first woman appointed to a U.S. court of appeals (1934); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Waite Hill, Ohio...