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Mr. Tolsos. Mr. Holloman. Miss Gandy_.___ : eerie | a - wet enamine oer | Nine. aa tar You must ‘have seen ‘their n new , group portradt in the papers’. weeeteetas- Went 21 seme Tesatinn dias an seclems and yemerday. Each time a Supreme Court gustice dies or resigns, anc tla new one is tagged, they call in the photographer and pose stiffly Chit iiig PROM THE {for posterity in thelr new order of seniority. In the reshuffling, das with a game of musical chairs, everyone junior to the departed Nov, POT member nroves up a chair, leaving the bleakest spot (farthest right, rn rear) to the cub. (> a : 7th BLUE FINAL , Yam glad the Supreme Court sticke ta this: ritual, for—aside ge gn dae — | from the foolish black robes of the Justices; and the quill pin on Tr £6 No vl 258 counsel's desk ag he argues—not much else remains unchanged.. : Te ne The court's burdens have been multiplied, as have its enemies PA LL wh ' 1{Justice Harlan tried ruefully to answer the latter yesterday, as ~ ee did Justice Douglas a few weeks ago}. The calendar is more Fo. CT WY TIVICTON ‘crowded, the cases more complex than they were, yet they have to lmove faster. Almost every condition under which the judges ‘of the past RE: ALL-AMERICAN NINE lived, worked, thought, conferred, wrote their decisions, has been by mAX LERNER changed. The court, moreover, has always been mixed up in the _ politica] embroilments of its time,. bat it is living as dangerously in our day as it ever lived. * BUFILE~ ; .- * * ; If you like the human and dramatic, there isa book to your taste about the court—John P. Frank's “Marble Palace” (Knopf, $5). The author clerked for Justice Black, taught at a couple of law schools, and is now a working lawyer—which ought to explain the interesting mixture in the book of the academic and the human. He tries to do too much—+to give too compressed a survey of . the court’s development, descrtbe its Inner workings, pass on the hiterary frailties as well as on the philosophical and technical skills ~ of the judges. In the end it is a bit of hodge-podge, but what of it? It isn’t great scholarship or deep theory or even bitter polemics. But it is part of the humanizing of knowle?;e which makes the ' Tuesday accounis of the Monday decisions add up to more sense. Incidentally the great event in Supreme Court scholarship will come soon when the volumes of the big Holmes project start pearing. With a characteristic gesture Justice Holmes left his he to the U. S., and the money is being used to finance a fe: —aee lume history of the Supreme Court. The authors have now b nmcoan tha. qanearal aditnar ie Dan) BPraind nf Larvard ona a Sen, tne-general editor is Paul Freund of Harvard, and §he ' Feeults ought to be good. | | a x = ne , — hs ots : aa fo of- 4 ae OBDEL ud 538, la RECORDED 33 DEC 3u 1958