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Died. George Herbert Moore, 84, retired U.S. District Judge in St. Louis, a portly senior jurist whose bulldog determination in the 1950s forced grand jury inquiries into tax fixing within the Bureau of Internal Revenue that ended, despite all attempts at whitewash, in indictments including such Truman Administration officials as T. Lamar Caudle and ex-Collector of Internal Revenue James P. Finnegan; in St. Louis...
...jurist's last work of fiction combines these elegantly amateur loves. Maria is an unabashed romance full of fine sentiment, true love, literary talismans snipped from Catullus and Shakespeare, and aphorisms worn to a wonderful polish from having spent a lifetime in the author's pocket...
...meticulous jurist and diplomat, whose favorite description of himself is "a brain on ice," Zafrulla has always been, in an era of revolution and extremism, an advocate of moderate policies. Unfailingly courteous, even in the most heated debates, he disdains flamboyant and vituperative oratory in favor of low-keyed logical argument, has often clashed in the U.N. with his archfoe, India's leading warlock, V. K. Krishna Menon. Though Zafrulla was an early champion of Indian independence, he never became a crusader or an inmate of political prisons like Nehru, preferred instead to work for an evolutionary agreement with...
Frankfurter seldom authored history making majority opinions, but his penetrating mind and formidable argumentative powers made him enormously influential in the closed-door conferences that precede the court's decisions. Another great jurist. Learned Hand, once called him "the most important single figure in our whole judicial system." Although he could be a profoundly kind and considerate man. Frankfurter had a waspish streak of intellectual impatience, and he sometimes jabbed lawyers, and even fellow Justices, with sharp-edged remarks or questions designed to make them get to the point. But no one could doubt his deep devotion...
...Africa, features Joanne Hamlin as Lady Cicely Waynflete, celebrated British traveller, the role Shaw wrote for British actress Ellen Terry. Tom Griffin plays the tital role of Brassbound, brigand and smuggler, who is in reality the nephew of Lady Cicely's travelling companion, Sir Howard Hallam, a famous English jurist, played by Samuel Abbott...