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...Overzealous Participation." To U.S. District Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr., 54, of Massachusetts, such tirades are nothing new: he has a positive talent for controversy. Sharp-minded and sharp-tongued, he is a former president of Harvard's Board of Overseers, has been described by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter as "one of the most brilliant law students I ever...
...Wyzanski has strong ideas about what a judge should and should not be. "He is not to be a common scold," he wrote in an opinion reprinted recently in the Atlantic. "Nor is he to use his place to push before the public his name, his views, his personality." Yet Judge Wyzanski is noted for the breach of his own advice, and just last February his bench manners earned him scathing reproof from a U.S. Court of Ap peals. "It is clear from the record before us," wrote the appellate court in remanding a case to Wyzanski, "that the confusion...
...Nine out of every ten public officials in Massachusetts are dedicated public ," McCormack declared. "But in this state if one is weak, the rest are concerned weak." Although admitting that hearings by Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, revealed corruption in state government McCormack charged that in the public "every public official in the state has been indicted and convicted by Wyzanski." Popular cynicism toward public servants is deep-rooted, McCormack implied. the Cambridge City Council authors the sale of part of the Cambridge for John B. Sullivan's "stilts," that as far as Cambridge were concerned, "every elected of Cambridge...
...sensational hearing by Wyzanski in U. S. District on the alleged bribing of government officials by the engineering arm of Worcester, McCormack criticized the arbitrary procedures and the since of civil libertarians...
...search for truth" hearings of and early January, Wyzanski threatened witnesses with charges and denied them the of the Fifth Amendment. "From other men one might expect these ," McCormack claimed, " is one of the most brilliant men bench...