Died. Harry Kalven Jr., 60, University of Chicago law professor who, with Colleague Hans Zeisel, wrote The American Jury, a definitive and laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken.
Died. James M. Cox...
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