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...Burger then took the President-elect upstairs to the dark, wood-paneled second-floor dining room to meet the Associate Justices. Burger and Reagan chatted about California wines. Justice Byron White engaged the visitor in talks about Reagan's days as a radio sports announcer, which occurred before "Whizzer" White won All-American renown as a halfback at the University of Colorado in 1937. The gathering, however, was about the only one in Washington in which Reagan, 69, was one of the junior participants; five of the Justices are older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How to Charm a City | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Supreme Court bears little love for the press; an even deeper animus seems to reside in President Kennedy's appointee, Byron White. (He's not grateful either when newspaper accounts invariably recall that Mr. Justice White was once better known to you and me as Whizzer White, football star.) But each court attempt to redefine the press's responsibility in libel suits or criminal trials isn't necessarily tearing the First Amendment to tatters, neither are "American courts on a rampage" against the press, as former CBS Correspondent Daniel Schorr argues. Critics often lament court decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Worried and Without Friends at Court | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...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 »

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