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...finished product, "and they were going to have us driving in a cage over the most beautiful bay in the world." He once complained: "Although I am not especially eager for my daughter to marry one, some of my best friends are engineers." Says Chronicle City Editor Abe Mellinkoff: "Temko's stuff is just as salable as a murder in the Tenderloin...
Clark's retirement (at full pay of $39,500) gives Lyndon Johnson the opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the liberals' slender majority. There was the usual speculation about Government figures (Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Congressman Wilbur Mills), academicians (Harvard Law School's Paul Freund), and Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Jason Robards stars in a 1964 TV adaptation of Robert Sherwood's play, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Repeat...
...could not be disbarred for having exercised his right to be silent in an ambulance-chasing investigation. Did all this mean that public employees under investigation could henceforth keep quiet without risking their jobs? Not quite. Though he was part of the one-vote majority in both cases, Justice Abe Fortas took pains to point out in a concurring Spevack opinion that a lawyer is not an employee of the state and therefore has no responsibilities to it other than that of fulfilling licensing requirements. "I would distinguish," he wrote, "between a lawyer's right to remain silent...
...true actor should be, he is an interpretive artist, not a personality merchant." For a major star, he is unique in lacking idiosyncrasies, ranging without trick or mannerism or telltale signature from classical heroes to contemporary antiheroes. A gaunt six-footer, he looks like a fine-grained, graceful Abe Lincoln. His expression glows with open intelligence, wit, humanity. From two foxholes lurk eyes that can flick a sense of danger to the farthest balcony. A critic wrote that he has the face of a fallen angel...