National Affairs: Utah Episode

When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a...

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