The Judiciary: Toward the Seats

Toward seats on one of the nation's most distinguished courts moved two of the nation's most widely known men of law. The court: the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont and which was long graced by the presence of the late Learned Hand and his cousin Augustus. The men: Thurgood Marshall, longtime special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (TIME cover, Sept. 19, 1955), and U.S. District Court Judge Irving R. Kaufman.

Marshall, 53, the great-grandson of a Congolese native who...

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