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...Judge Potter Stewart, recently appointed to the Supreme Court, agreed in his opinion that some "impairment of this First Amendment freedom" was involved in the citation. He declined, however, to honor the plea of journalistic privilege, on the grounds that it was not incorporated in the common law, and could only be assured by legislation...
...Judge Potter Stewart, 43, who as chairman of the Yale Daily News in 1936-37 had his own college-day brushes with reporting, wrote the decision. He acknowledged that "compulsory disclosure of a journalist's confidential sources may entail an abridgment of press freedom by imposing some limitation upon the availability of news." But "the duty of a witness to testify in a court of law has roots as deep as the guarantee of a free press," which justifies "some impairment" of the First Amendment (on press freedom...
...newly-announced White House appointment of Justice Potter Stewart of Cincinnati, Ohio, to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Harold H. Burton was received with favor by the faculty of the Harvard Law School, a sampling of opinion showed last night...
...will begin her lecture series on "Aspects of Social Life in Tuscany in the Last Two Centuries of the Middle Ages," today at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room of Lamont Library. Entitled, "Introduction: The Problem of Authority," it is the first in her series of nine John Milton Potter Memorial Lectures given under the auspices of the Department of History. All are open to the public...
Commissioner Jacobs met with President Dan M. Potter and other members of the Protestant Council but said only that he would pass their objections to his policy along to the Board of Hospitals. Last week the pro-contraception forces prepared for a long and drawn-out battle; the American Jewish Congress and the American Civil Liberties Union called a meeting to set up a citizens' committee and consider preparing a case for testing in the courts. Their position was best summed up by an editorial in the New York Times: "Freedom of religion works both ways; and in this...