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ing ig_meroothan knowing the fafter the 1948 Yretitemial elec: Writes to defendants. This opinion, law of the land, wlio was pointed from tee respite aw. Judging is a technique, a | tion involved a member of the fpi is *ahd—smdcared him to Fai reat measure of which is de- court in_the forbidden area of Fehief J. Edgar Hoover. Court in Kansas City a year aj termining what can be accom- fpelitics. But he is « stalwart de- Off the bench, the tall, slender | A Missouri country boy w worked his way through 1]: school to become a highly : garded “office lawyer” in Ke fi City, Whittaker has a repui * lished.” ae fender of freedom of speech, in- Texun has the Westerner’s Though no justice on the feluding his own, and sees no rea- friendty casualness. He calls most minotily side of a decision is ever [son why his position should pre- everyone “partner,” pronouncing easigned te write an opinion, dis- }vent him from speaking his mind. jt Texas-style, as “pardner * and ‘rot-loving Fraukfuiter always [He and his animated and earn~ gis’ totally unassuming—so much [fon for being the mont deliber: . an on the court. “Old Charley reads everythi: Jooks everything up and wei every ‘uh’ and ‘whereas’ bef making up his mind,” says net man Jack Williams, who kn him for years in Kansas City. ‘oes. He even writes separate | eetly intelicetual wife, Mercedca j i ryinions expressing his views | are very active eonialiy and have o, in fact, iihat he is the only ~ hen he is with the inajority. a wide cirele of friends. Theirs "name in the telephone book. On the bench, Frankfurter is was a second marriage for both. Though he still affects Texas often testily impatient with his Afra. Douglas, daughter of a Lou- dress—big hat and light-colored -ulleagues and does not hesitate | isiana sheriff, was the wife of an suits—Clark has made one con- o interrupt the Chief Justice if | Interior Department of fieial tession to the ultra-conservative ce thinks his superior's questions | whom she divorced to marry sae : Whittaker and his wife, Wi j tradition of tle court. He dis- ~ ay? ‘ihe justices do x great deal of | Douglas. ve fred, live near the William crestioning from the bench) are The romance was an open cane his collection of 150 of the Pouglases and are stay-at-hom “raying from the point “pale” rat en i ed Pond wore, and now wears only’ blac quantity to eapital reporters ® r : w n and |! ones. , Frankfurter Demands et iret it escaped becoming « The Clarks live in the capital's hia Friend Williane’ ceneste ‘Tontentious Clerks acandal, most exclusive apartment house, fan interview on how he lik Ini . A one-time employe of former || where they entertain frequently. Ine nike Pe other, Members a Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas (R-j| His principal outside interest is lis clerks from Harvard Law and Calif.)}, Mrs. Dougles is colleague olf, which he plays at Burning icsints that the dean rend him 42%. Well as wife and has helped Free (the President's club}, usu- nly young men spunky enough her husband prepare a number of || ally with retired Justice Stanley u prague with hi an : we books. Last year, they moved into ! Reed, an old friend. jints of Jaw but elo ‘on the a house overlooking one of the! . cher wording of opinions locks of the Chesapeake and Ohio | | Four Other Justices =. --- (Frankfurter’s eniployment of cone ee he walks and walks Are Widely Unknown rod eet “oe jhe basis of 1 og tee be 1 The remaining four justices about Jeft-wingers in ; aera “ i Tashi ernment: “How to get ahead OSSIBLY the happiest man on | g8te little known in Washington : : . and virtually unknown jin the .+ Washington—go tc Harvard || the high bench is Tom;Clark, | 120% Crane U.S.—three because living in Washington. yh re. gan te pe E first” Ronian Catholie serve on the court since t death of Justice Frank Murp in 1949 is Justice William Brennan, 52, a son of Irish imr grant parents, who was appoint two years ago from the N Jersey Supreme Court. A Democrat, though never | tive politically, Frennan’s + pointment came as a comple ‘aw and turn left.”) a former U.S. attorney general surprise to him. He got a c Capital society seldom sees the | ho got his heart’s desire when they prefer it wt away and. the one day from ex-U.S. Attorn bustling little justice — he js [JP resident Truman appointed him Fthe court, motes dae ; General Herbert Brownell J *-arcely more than 6 feet and | to the Supreme Court 10 years vont ‘oe. 3 ago. A lawyer through = and : “Fras! seas hhon thet makes Pin yoni nee through, Clark's dream even in { \Jokn Marshelt”Harlan's person : Wye eat 4 chool w F telity fies in his given nante. Flees Tron ar ite a erin law ool was to sit on the | Named for John Marshall, the : hi - tion's greatest chief justice 1 h ‘story er While tt was generally agreed | | ™¢ pate { guatice, ver Totes fa Geen gray that he waa n skilled politician Harlan haa atviven all his life to Probably, Frankfurter doesn't | #74 @ shrewd lawyer, there were | | SPP Merahall's py ineiples fo hie who asked him to be in Washin ton the next day on “importa business.” *It was not until Brennan reach the capita] and met the Preside that he learned he was to succe Justice Sherman Minton, wha } tired because of failing health. The clue to’ 59-year-old Justice —a lise the social scene. some who doubted that Clark was aT na AS is his whole | A specialist in labor law t ‘Felix, has only two interests | GUS) ied to be a justice, life. A neighbor in Georgetown fore he was named to the Ni uyway,” saya a friend, “One is But even these critics agree Mrs. Francis Biddle, says she |Wersey Supreme Court, Brenn ‘he Jaw and the ether is his |Poow that Clark has grown with vife? 1 ; ' he job. A hard worker—*I've got The best-known mémber of the to work twice as hard because ‘ourt outsic arren is Justice | Pm not as smart aa some of the i i “illiam ©. Douglas, 66, whose | other fellows,” he once said entit is £0 seldom seen olmerwise varathon hikes and mountain |clerk is emerging as a sound if {| community when he joined a citi- limhing expedilions into far- "not brilliant judge. rens association dedicated to pre- cay, lands have made him a/ | On the generally liberal Warren! | serving the historic streets and vmiliar, if puzzling, figure to |frourt, Clark finds himself Jean- hemes of Georgetown. But he frequently sees Harlan coming home after dark “with an arm- load of work.” ivil rights. But he has not be a member of the Supreme Cor long enough to be classified a liberal or @ conservative. Like the Whittakers, the Bre nana thua far have not been se much socially around the ecapit ‘ilions of newspaper readers. ng toward the conservative side: | | rare! : ; ut in time they undoubtedly ; Trrepressibly outspoken, Dour. recent instance was his aaeetin pute mm an appearance at «Brennan aie aowarm iri sw is no respecter cf precedent. reasoned and forceful dissent in Considered « judge's judge ereonality, Ukex people and Vor example, Rey cech to Inbor [the case that opertt—tin— FRY | Hartan’s ot omotinn ron the oo dynamic to seclude hime - nN ~ U.8. Court of Appeals in New |[bchind the marble pillars of t a York somewhat offset the lack |ourt. The Brennana live in fashic able Georgetown. They have thr children, William J. 3d, 25; Hu L., 20, and Nancy, 10...;,, "i. The youngest member of ¥ court in years seniority. Justices Pot Stewart, 48, s poinled laat October. He on turned down a chance to be may f Cincinnati, his home town, | ause he thought the job wot ke_too much tlme from a te family. frye = fF Evana Hughes wrote the en | amity, dl 7 i of judicial background in an earlier Eisenhower appointee— Warren, who had never been a Judge. arlan and his wife, Ethel, are a quiet couple whose chief recreation is an occasional walk about historic Georgetown. . Another member of the court named for 9 famed chief justice Sok fe bT-year-old Charles Evans : re Whittaker (Marshall and Charies . at opi on the Supreme in is8 wn Ste Connitepower 10 determine the! art, then a rising Mguye fn F t, Be ues a oe “ pag ee re Ree re re me a ee iliiedate Brace eeanan — oe _— 7 5 = AI eB te we ey a a OOM MS Sth ag OE VF. ave = , er ‘te . to : silty gt : a ee oh , woes, ~ on, le i 2, ao cae % we — A ve ge “se