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...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...
...become Attorney General. Instead, he was given the HEW appointment-after it proved impolitic to hand it to Soapy Williams. Then Ribicoff also got word that a long-discussed post on the Supreme Court was not for him; he disclaimed his candidacy before the first vacancy went to Whizzer White...
...outdoor dance at Hickory Hill, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's country place in McLean, Va., was such as to make a splash in any sort of political society. Included were the Lyndon Johnsons, British Ambassador David Ormsby Gore and Lady O. G., Supreme Court Associate Justice Whizzer White, Mrs. John Glenn and her husband (who has been something of a fixture at the Hickory Hill lunching pad since he got back from outer space), the Stew Udalls, the Orville Freemans, the Arthur Goldbergs and assorted White House aides, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Larry O'Brien. The guests...
...Robert F. Kennedy '48, and David E. Bell of the Budget Bureau are not. Still, one can't forget John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, who both protested Harvard's giving too many degrees to Republicans, and who may both be ready for the honor themselves. Whizzer became Mr. Justice White too late...