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...What great actor played Walter Denton in the old and beloved Our Miss Brooks and what role did he later play opposite Walter Brennan...
Birthday of an Amendment. Despite the uncertainty of the future, Justices Warren, Fortas and William Brennan took time last week to celebrate the past. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the 14th Amendment, and at a centennial commemoration sponsored by N.Y.U. Law School, all three defended the use of the amendment's "due process clause" to strike down state laws that discriminate against Negroes or deny federally guaranteed rights. Brennan called the 14th "the prime tool by which we as citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps...
...tiny Ryan Airlines, Inc. in February 1927. The answer was yes, and Hall, Ryan's only engineer, was as good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage, in 1959 became...
...this century alone, six Justices have been appointed in presidential election years, the last, William Brennan, being named by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower little more than a month before the 1956 election, when the nation also had a chance to change its leadership. Chief Justice John Marshall was appointed by his friend John Adams only a few weeks before Thomas Jefferson was to take office. If the G.O.P. argument were followed through, noted Mansfield, "any time a President was elected to a second term, he would become a lame duck on the very first day of that term." Johnson himself...
...Brother Brennan (Supreme Court Justices refer to one another fraternally), he is "an utterly delightful companion. In conference, no matter how tense the situation, he comes off with his delightful cracks." In the view of Madame Hervé Alphand, wife of the former French ambassador and one of the most noted capital hostesses, he was entirely outgoing. "Zat Abe," she once commented, "he dances with all the girls?long, short, fat, and thin...