Deaths

Barbara N. Armstrong, 85, first woman law professor in the United States, 18 January 1976.

Alexander M. Bickel, constitutional-law scholar at Yale University, 7 November 1974.

Hugo L. Black, 85, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1937-1971), 25 September 1971.

Leo Brewster, 76, United States District Court judge who supervised and decided the school-desegregation case in Fort Worth, Texas, 27 November 1976.

James F. Byrnes, 93, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1941-1942), 8 April 1972.

Tom C. Clark, 78, associate justice on the Supreme Court (1949-1967), 13 June 1977.

Ben C. Connally, 65, federal district court judge who presided over Houston's school-desegregation case, 2 December 1975.

Clifford J. Durr, 76, lawyer in the New Deal and in the Truman administration until he objected to loyalty oaths; active in civil rights in...

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