One day last week, New York's Federal Circuit Judge John Marshall Harlan was asked to pick the winner of the Yale-Princeton game. Princetonian Harlan paused, considered, smiled and said: "I don't want to commit myself."* Such is the judicious nature of the man President Eisenhower last week named to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson (TIME, Oct. 18).
Last of the Chewers. Judge Harlan was bred to the law. His great-grandfather was a Kentucky lawyer, Congressman and state attorney general; his...
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