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...Jimmy Forrestal gave an aide an order: "Get the Chief Justice down here at noon. I want to take the oath." It took a lot of scurrying to round up the big Army & Navy brass, four Cabinet members and four Senators; they and Chief Justice Fred Vinson made it by a couple of minutes before noon. Somebody remembered that a Bible would be needed; there wasn't one in Forrestal's office. An aide hurried off and scrounged one. At 12:07 p.m., James Vincent Forrestal, in grey flannel suit and soft collar, solemnly said...
...third of the U.S. Supreme Court-Fred M. Vinson, Stanley E. Reed and Wiley Rutledge, all Kentuckians-prepared to go to Louisville this week, all to get honorary LL.D.s from the University of Louisville Law School...
Late in March, the kids began toting their marbles to school in Roanoke, Va. At recess, there were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...
Unlucky Rabbit's Foot. After three days, Roanoke's Larry Vinson had eliminated five rivals. His backspin was working fine, he drew his marble nicely, cleaned out the ring time after time in one turn. But on the last day, Larry's rabbit's foot failed just when he needed it most. He bit his lip, said nothing, shed not a tear...
Boston Symphony's Serge Koussevitzky, who acknowledged applause with little conductorial bows; Chief Justice Frederick M. Vinson; Viscount Alexander of Tunis, the Governor General of Canada, in the red robe of Oxford; U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (getting his third degree in three days) ; Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Vatican in his cardinal's red; Poet T. S. Eliot; and Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower...