JUDICIARY: Simulacrum

What would happen behind the scenes of the Supreme Court if its members had to induct six young New Dealers is a subject to pique reportorial imagination. Last week several laymen had the opportunity of witnessing a comparable spectacle when black-haired, round-faced John Biggs Jr. of Delaware took office as a member of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware).

A graduate of Princeton (1918), of Harvard Law School (1922), grandson of a Delaware Governor and son of a Delaware Attorney General, Judge Biggs is only 41. He...

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