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Next to the Supreme Court Justices, the most influential judges in the U.S. are those who sit on famed "CCA-2"-the U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont). Last month Chief Judge Thomas Swan retired, at 75, from his $17,500-a-year lifetime seat on that bench. Last week President Eisenhower was getting ready to fill the job-the first important judicial appointment of his Administration. The choice lay between a candidate with top-drawer political credentials and one carrying the blue-ribbon endorsement of leaders of the second circuit's bench...
...Swan Song. The worst was yet to come. Five miles above the finish waited murderous Cottonwood Rapids, where the clawing waters, leaping up in snarling talons, funnel through a 20-ft. passage. Thousands of spectators had gathered there for the climax. First through was Bock, showing the strain in his taut face, then Paris, spilling again. Then came Champion Seidel, flashing his two-bladed paddle and maneuvering his tight-fitting craft by swinging his hips, hula-like, to meet crosscurrents. He shot through with expert ease, emerged from angry Cottonwood to come in fourth at the finish...
...Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...
...Boston transformed its historic Common into an open-air, museum for its second annual Art. Festival this week. In brightly decorated tents were some 400 pictures and sculptures. To back up the art, there were nightly concerts, and rides for the kids on the park's graceful swan boats. In four days last year more than 150,000 people came to the event, and this year's crowd looked even bigger...
Councillors W. Donnison Swan '16 and Edward A. Crane '35 and Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 defended the Corporation's decision, and the matter was referred to the committee on finance--a virtual shelving--by a five to four vote...