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Rauctis Bainter ' fstage, his deportment is mH) rkedly different. Among }fufends, he revels in raucous | banter, spiced with what one ‘réporter has calied a “satoon- type humor.” ‘He telis funny stories loudly and with gusto, in a Negro dialect that never yereeps into his public utter-~ .ances. On his frequent train , [trips he is Hkely to wander | into the ‘diner and pass the time. trading jokes with the , ¢ cooks and waiters, . : ' } Mr, Mashe was born in ‘Baltimore on July 2, 19068, tson of a dining ‘car steward iand a school teacher. They j named ,i him . Thoroughgood, ) but, he has explained, “by. fhe { time I reached the second fgrade, I got tired of spélling ‘all that out and had short-, {ened it to Thurgood.” » - : It was‘in-high school that jhe first became acquainted— i and forcibly—-with the Unitéd © {States Constitution. Although - this academic work was excel- lent, Ris -behavior was prank- ish,’ As ‘punishment, he was frepeatediy ordered to the ‘basement to-memorize 2 sec- f tior of the document that was jto underlay his future career, ee ee sentative at the primaries this summer, With characte tie frankness, he explaiged, }- “Powell and I stand for the same things.” , In more than a figurative | sense, it might he said that | Mr, Marshall is married to} his job. In December, 1955, he wed Miss Cecile Suyat, a young secrefary in the New York dffice of the N.A.A.C.P. } Mr. Marshall's first re) died of lung cancer in Feb- ruary, 1955. They had no chil- dren. By, his second wife, ‘hey ‘has’ two babies. - The family Hyves in Morn-} ingside Gardens, the somes tive apartment ‘house near Columbia Dnivessity. There, + on, ‘most evenings, Mr. Mar- }- “shall sits hunched over a table? ~ covered with briefs and law} ‘books, with a seowl of con- C . centration on his face. With his --hooked nose, mustache! and,conStant frown, he looks {7 like an angry Bedouin chief. Mr, Marshali is a big, heavy.¢ ‘ man—-210 pounds on 2 6-foot- i , “In two years,” he fecalls, . {“I knew the whole thing by , heart.” ‘ ;. He later went to Lincoln { University in Chester, . Pa., yand to Howard University >Law School in Washington, 4 where he graduated at the top 3 Of his class, ; , . _ $4,000.82 the Red , Admitted t) the Maryland har in 1933,/°Mr. -Marshail ’ Yfound himself! $1,000 in the ‘red one year after hanging out his shingle. That was be- \ecatise he continually took on \oivil rights eases at no com-~ i pensation. . : In 1686 he accepted 2 f “temporary” job as assistant counsel for the N.A.A.C. P. { at an annual salary of $2,600. i} He became chief counse! in 1838. He indicates no inclina- tion to quit for greener pas- tures, although associates are. j sure that in private practice ‘ihe could surpass his present |salary of $15,000, Nor does he stem to have tore ic party te oppose Ajam | Ck ton Powell Jr. for R re~ . 2-inch fframe, At 56, he some-(" how ‘maintains energetic health without exercise or }: vacations. With all his legalistic in- terest in constitutional ques- tions, Mr. Marshall never; forgets his client, whom he refers to in private conversa-{. tion as the “hard pressed }- little guy in Alabama.” _ “What he wants most is; simply to get the focal Sheriff} or judge or prosecutor offjhis neck, And he wants to ifie| the burden off the white, man’s shoulders,*? Mr. (ary: shall says. . P a SEEN te pen aia is- |