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John Minor Wisdom, 55, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, the Canal Zone). New Orleans-born John Wisdom, a topflight corporation lawyer and an Eisenhower Republican, was appointed to the federal bench in 1957. Since then, says a New Orleans attorney, "he has disappointed a lot of his enemies and surprised many of his friends." The reactions stem from the quality of his tough decisions: alone or in tandem with fellow Fifth Circuit judges, Wisdom has outlawed a Louisiana law that forbade Negroes to participate in sports events with whites, and ruled...
...Pikes Peak. Washington State's Whitman (fine pre-med training) thrives near wheat fields and ski slopes. Other "unknown" colleges are in lively U.S. cities: New Orleans' Sophie Newcomb is the women's branch of Tulane University; and Washington. D.C.'s Trinity is a topflight Roman Catholic girls' school that emphasizes science and languages, including Russian and Chinese. New York City's Wagner College has a double feature: a hilltop rural campus on Staten Island with a sweeping view of passing ocean liners and easy access (by a 5? ferry ride past the Statue...
Spotting Trends. The fact is that as a business columnist, Sylvia Porter can more than hold her own in a predominantly male field. Even her critics acknowledge her perception. Says the chief of research for a topflight economic agency in Washington: "She is watched, more than read, because she is perceptive, and we want to know what is on her mind...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the almost unbearably moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...
Kansas. Shy, personable Republican John Anderson Jr., 43, prefers raising Shetland ponies to playing politics but has never lost an election. Anderson has been a topflight county attorney and state senator, has served for the past four years as attorney general under his election victim, Democratic Governor George Docking. Liberal by Kansas G.O.P. standards (he favors repeal of the state's right-to-work laws), Anderson had to beat out his party's choice for the nomination in a primary. Major campaign promise: more cash for state schools...