Word: whizzer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over at Eagle Shirtmakers, Inc. in Quakertown, Pa., the boardroom boys fretted over an industry shortcoming: too many clothing manufacturers cloak colors with such drably unimaginative names as dark blue or light tan. Eagle proposed a contest for more colorful descriptions, as a starter suggested navel orange and whizzer white. Along Madison Avenue, and in Mineola, Mamaroneck and Montclair, the game caught on. Eagle has been deluged with a chromatic list of imaginative new colors. Among them: gang green, forever amber, sick bay, hash brown, dorian grey, hi ho silver and statutory grape. Upcoming out of Quakertown: a shirt...
...ranging from the drug industry to steel pricing to boxing and baseball. In 1962, when Justice Charles Evans Whittaker retired from the Supreme Court, Kefauver's name was mentioned as a replacement, but the New Frontier didn't cotton to the Keefs independent ways and named Byron ("Whizzer") White instead...
...jury was impaneled only two days later and the trial begun. But, ruled the Supreme Court, the jury switch nonetheless amounted to double jeopardy. It was the third civil liberties decision in five weeks in which President Kennedy's two appointees were split. Each time Justice Byron "Whizzer" White has voted with the minority of judicial "conservatives," while Justice Arthur Goldberg has voted with the "liberal" majority. » Agreed to give a hearing next fall or winter to an appeal by New York Racketeer Frank Costello, 72, against deportation proceedings. Costello, convicted of income tax evasion...
...trip from the 50-yd. line to the bench was a proud one for Byron R. ("Whizzer") White, 45. An All-America halfback at Colorado ('37). White won a Rhodes scholarship, played pro football for Pittsburgh and Detroit, finished at the top of his class at Yale Law School, finally made the biggest time of all when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor...
McCloskey qualified his predictions with the reservation that no one really knows what judicial positions will be taken by Arthur Goldberg, appointed in August after Frankfurter's resignation, and Byron R. "Whizzer" White, appointed last March to replace Whittaker. The court term which began on Oct. 8 is the first one for both new justices...