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Outlook. Tagged both "conservative" and "liberal," Stewart refuses to admit to any simple ideological label. "I'd like to be thought of as a lawyer," he says. Southerners searching for a clue to his approach to desegregation could find it in a 1956 decision in which he rejected the Hillsboro (Ohio) school board's contention that, to avoid overcrowding, integration should be postponed until a new school building was completed: "The avoidance alone of somewhat overcrowded classrooms cannot justify segregation of school children solely because of the color of their skins.". The quality that a judge needs above...
Ohio Republican Stewart, already the possessor of a distinguished judicial reputation (see box), succeeds another distinguished Ohio Republican. Harvard-trained Lawyer Harold Burton, Truman-appointed, was mildly conservative in outlook, served on the adventuresome Warren court not as a guiding rudder but as a valuable anchor to windward. Last year, in one of the most important Supreme Court minority opinions of the decade, Burton powerfully dissented from the ruling that Du Font's 23% stock ownership of General Motors violated antitrust laws (TIME, June 17, 1957). He authored last May's conservative-leaning opinion that a worker kept...
Fawzi is widely accounted a scholarly and able lawyer, but like many another attorney for a gangster client, he sometimes has to serve as a mere mouthpiece...
...What is the secret of living healthily, happily and usefully in old age? How has Stagg done it? In fields unrelated to physical fitness, how has the same goal been achieved by other productive oldsters, such as ex-President Herbert Hoover (84), Senator Theodore Francis Green (91), and Manhattan Lawyer Charles C. Burlingham...
Died. William Frank Buckley, 77, far-right-wing capitalist, onetime (1908-n) lawyer for Mexican oil firms, who struck it rich with his own fields, bitterly anti-progressive-education theorist, who last year (TIME, March 4, 1957) founded a school on his Sharon, Conn, estate, to produce an intellectual elite (mostly his own grandchildren) who would be safeguarded from "the blight of liberalism and Communism"; in Manhattan...