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...been billed in advance as a sort of Tropic of Mayfair. Compiled by Lord Denning, Britain's second highest judicial official, the manuscript was the result of an exhaustive, three-month investigation into the security aspects of the great Profumo-Keeler-Ivanov scandal. But the churchgoing, teetotal jurist had also been directed by the Prime Minister to look into "rumors which affect the honor and integrity of public life," meaning gleeful, persistent gossip that several other ministers in Macmillan's government have indulged in profumian revels...
...believe that a strong, unified police force could lead to a police state. As a result, they have 158 separate local forces whose chief constables are accountable only to themselves. When a royal commission in 1962 recommended continuation of this system, Commission Member A. L. Goodhart-an eminent U.S. jurist who was then Master of Oxford's University College-objected that a single, centrally controlled police network would be infinitely more efficient, and more democratic, than the "empty velvet glove" with which Britain is now trying to defeat organized crime. "The danger in a democracy," said he, "does...
Something Missed. That fall Douglas separated from his second wife and moved to a bachelor apartment. A precociously distinguished jurist and an outdoorsman of rare dedication, Douglas had in 1923 married Mildred Riddle, a girl he had met while both taught at Yakima, Wash., high school. Mildred worked to help him through Columbia University Law School, bore him a son and daughter. But after 30 years of marriage, in 1953, she divorced him, charging that he left her "abandoned and alone" while working and graveling "to remote places in the world...
Died. Harry Sacher, 60, longtime mouthpiece for U.S. Communists, who, in defense of eleven top party members in 1949, so badgered, bullied and bedeviled federal Judge Harold Medina, hoping to ruin the jurist's health and thus gain a mistrial, that after the Reds' conviction Medina sentenced him to six months in jail (which he served, though a similar sentence in 1956 for refusing to tell Congress whether he was a Communist was overturned by the Supreme Court); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Sniffed Sacher to Medina: "If it were necessary in the cause of liberty...
...played pro football for Pittsburgh and Detroit, finished at the top of his class at Yale Law School, finally made the biggest time of all when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor: a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 1962 Silver All-America Award, calling him "the greatest athlete of his time...