Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Philip Benjamin Perlman, 70, Maryland lawyer, newspaperman (onetime Baltimore Evening Sun city editor and prank-playing crony of H. L. Mencken) and Democratic politician, who from 1947 to 1952 as workhorse Solicitor General of the U.S. personally won an unprecedented 49 cases before the Supreme Court but lost his most famous one, defense of President Truman's 1952 seizure of the steel industry; of heart disease; in Washington. An energetic fighter for civil rights. Perlman was co-chairman of the Platform Committee at last month's Democratic Convention...
...constitutional lawyer in 1936 and jumped into the battle for civil rights. Between teaching and setting up the first formal civil rights course in any U.S. law school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard-trained Attorney Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court. Nabrit helped win the ruling against public-school segregation...
...read my writing"; stuffing his ears with cotton for days after visiting the house of Beethoven and being reminded of the composer's deafness; walking up 49th Street under Writer Nancy Hale's window chanting "I wrote 10,000 words today"; and finally, lying dead in Maryland, survived by the ringing fact that nowhere in the region could a coffin be found that was big enough for Thomas Wolfe...