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Although Presidents have been sadly surprised by the performance of some of their appointees (most notably Dwight Eisenhower by Warren and Theodore Roosevelt by Oliver Wendell Holmes), Nixon seems far too conscious of just what he wants in a Justice to err in selection. One likely choice: Virginia Representative Richard...
Died. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, 66, Nobel-prizewinning biochemist; apparently of a heart attack; in Salamanca, Spain. As a researcher at Princeton's Rockefeller Institute, Stanley in 1935 was the first scientist to crystallize and identify a virus. He later organized Berkeley's internationally renowned virus laboratory, where...
Mary E. Sehwab of Winthrop Hall and Gainesville, Florida; Elizabeth S. Spelke of 6 Marie Avenue and Stanford, Connecticut; Carol R. Sternhell of Adams House and Rockville Center, New York; Nancy Stieber of 66 Wendell Street and Avon. Connecticut; Carmela Vircillo of Lowell House and New York;
Birmingham quickly skips from Spain to the Sephardim's arrival in the New World. Despite Peter Stuyvesant, who considered them "godless rascals," they were soon slave-trading with the best people and prospering. In a familiar pattern, the book alternates scandals with successes. Benjamin Cardozo replaced Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Backbiting. Dewey reached vainly for the presidency three times. Near the end of a sensational career as a prosecuting attorney in 1940, he sought the Republican nomination. Dewey stumped the nation, headed into the Philadelphia convention as the favorite. But no one had ever leaped from D.A. to presidential candidate...