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Word: whizzer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight young lawyers (average age 28). All could be getting good salaries on Wall Street, but they agree with Director Albert when he says: "I wanted to do something relevant." Albert, who earns $17,000 a year, went to Yale Law School, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron ("Whizzer") White, and taught at the London School of Economics. He now teaches a course at the Columbia Law School. Others, like Ron Pollack, a veteran of Mississippi civil rights campaigns, are paid only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare: Doing Something Relevant | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...undersigned condemn the hypocritical racist lies and slander of Portfolio Pig Pusey, Faculty Flunkey Ford, patrician punk von Stade ("I just can't believe our darkies could do this--even a small group of them"), and Weenie Whizzer Watson, as mad-dog Insanity and naked aggression against the People...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT A PIG PEN | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...rooms for an unexpected guest, just as there is always another chair?or two or three?at the table. When someone turns up, a few positions are shifted, and the visitor finds himself sitting next to Ted Kennedy, onetime Football Great Roosevelt Grier, Supreme Court Justice Byron ("Whizzer") White, Actress Lauren Bacall?or perhaps a trio of civil rights workers from the South. It all seems so natural, says Dave Hackett, Bobby's prep-school roommate and longtime friend, that "you have the feeling he himself will come walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...Protestant evangelist (Billy Graham, 47) or a Catholic Archbishop (John Patrick Cody, 58, of Chicago, a U.S. cardinal-to-be), he lends spiritual guidance to attending multitudes. Whether he is a master of industry (Arjay Miller, 50, president of Ford) or a master of jurisprudence (Byron R. "Whizzer" White, 49, Supreme Court Justice), he determines the patterns of social change. Whether the opinion molder is at the University of Toronto (Marshall McLuhan, 55) or on Madison Avenue (David Ogilvy, 55), he shapes the thoughts and desires of a continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...House is about 20 paces away from the IAB, but by any other yard-stick it is about as far from a gymnasium as Adams House. Its athletes, like its debaters, just happen to be a little better than most. There are a lot of Whizzer White types in Winthrop--hardly any Big Daddy Lipscombs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop | 3/12/1966 | See Source »

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