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a ee A tynching averted ARSHALL occasionally pulls other Negroes out of danger with the same quick thinking. One night while playing pinochle with some friends in New York, he received a long-distance phone call from a friend somewhere in the South advising Marshall that a lynching was about to get under way. Hastily Marshall put a call in to the FBI in Washington..Bur the office had elosed Hetriea the next best thing; he put in a, person-to-person call to ab impor- tant lawyer-politician of the state where the trouble was—a man with a strong anti-Negro bias. Marshall pointed out that with au ‘election coming up, the politician could ill afford the notoriety of a lynching. The state police were called out and the lynching was narrowly averted. After the Supreme Court hearings last April, Marshall's staff had been in a state of suspended animation, waiting for the im- . plementing decision. Marshall himself kept going, but with a dif- ' ference. His wife, to whom he had been married 26 years, died - last February. The Marshalls had been devoted io each other, and ‘ CONTINUED ON PAGE 152 t