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THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, 45, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Tall, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 184 Ibs.), and a youthful-looking hustler, Morton is a seventh-generation Kentuckian from Louisville, a Yaleman (class of '29), and formerly head of his family's flour mill firm, Ballard & Ballard, which was bought out by Pillsbury Mills in 1951. In World War II he served with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky...
...Alben gets his way," said a fellow Kentuckian, "but he does it so you never feel it hurt." In 1949, while Barkley was presiding over the Senate, he ruled against his Southern friends in an attempt to cut off a Southern filibuster. But he lost not a friend thereby. He set the tone by reaching for one of his ageless stories. "I feel," he said, "somewhat like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he liked it, and he said that if it were not for the honor of the thing...
...Another Kentuckian describes Barkley as "an extreme extrovert-but one with a feeling for what the other fellow is thinking." Translated into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through...
Flannery grew up in a house where an easel and the American Stud Book were both handy. His father, a Kentuckian, remembered his son's birth as the year when Plaudit won the Kentucky Derby (1898). Flannery's mother, an amateur painter, encouraged him to study art. But young Vaughn decided that he wanted to make money. When he had enough of it, he moved his wife and two children to his 307-acre Maryland farm. He runs a profitable "nursery" business, boarding brood mares about to foal. "What's more," says Artist Flannery...
Whatever the explanation, Kentuckian Vinson's aside on morals drew no dissent from his brethren on the supreme bench. And no wonder. The doctrine he pronounced stems straight from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, philosophical father of the present Supreme Court. In one way or another, it has been voiced by the court many times, notably by Justice Felix Frankfurter, longtime (1914-39) Harvard Law School professor, author of Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1939), discoverer, under the New Deal, of scores of bright young men (the Happy Hot Dogs) for top Government positions...