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...sooner had Ronald Davies arrived in Little Rock than he was deep in the historic integration case brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Government. Davies fully understood the delicacy of his situation: he kept to himself, left his Sam Peck Hotel room only to walk to the Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone...
Twice-married Ted Cabot helps deliver the papers, mans the classified-ads desk at the lunch hour, frequently dons apron and relieves a typesetter, composes his editorials at a desk so cluttered with papers that he has to peck at a portable typewriter propped precariously on his lap. Says Cabot: "I've felt close to the people here and their problems. When I no longer had any ties back East, I just picked up and came...
...nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine of the Claretian Missionary Fathers. With a few exceptions...
...Washington last week shortened the leash that the Supreme Court recently tied to congressional investigating committees. Taking off from the Supreme Court's ruling in the Watkins case (TIME, July 1), Youngdahl set aside the contempt-of-Congress conviction of the New York Times's Copyreader Seymour Peck, who last year declined to tell a Senate Internal Security subcommittee the names of Reds he had known during the twelve years he was a Communist (he quit the party...
Only four months ago, ruling on the same set of facts, Judge Youngdahl refused defendant Peck's motion for acquittal. Speedily convicted by a federal jury in Washington, Peck was fined $500 and got a suspended sentence of 30 days. But while his appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decreed in the Watkins case that congressional committees must make clear to a witness that their questions are pertinent to contemplated legislation. Judge Youngdahl ruled that this aspect of the Watkins decision applied to the Peck case, and went on to newer ground. By asking Peck to reveal associations "remote...