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Show (udiinqtbn 17 OAMlJ PXlTO As quarterback of Bowdoin ; College eleven, Brunswick, Me., i in the early nineteen hundreds, ex-Senator Harold H. Burton of j Ohio, recently appointed Supreme 1 Court Justice, learned how team- j work brings victory. j Now 57, Mr. Burton takes his new post imbued with the philos-, ophy that men work best as a team. "I hold to the belief that if folks get around a table and talk things over, they usually can come to the right and fair answer,'' he says. A compact figure with thinning gray hair and direct gaze, Justice Burton has been an Army officer, mayor of Cleveland and a U. S. Senator. N(ew , England-born, graduate of Harvard Law School, he knows the Middle West through long residence in Cleveland, and the West as a result of legal business bus-iness in Utah and Idaho. As mayor of Cleveland during the depression, he told jobless workers how to get state and federal fed-eral relief. Recently he has been criticized by organized labor for supporting revision of the Wagner Act. Concern over the huge national debt and natural inclination will, friends of the new Justice say, lead him to take a stand between the "advanced" and the "conservative" "conserv-ative" groups in Supreme Court, voting sometimes with one group and sometimes with the other. "My basic confidence is still in private enterprise,'' he said, just before retiring from the Senate. |