
    No. 248. No. 249.
    Lawson v. United States; and Trumbo v. United States.
    United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
    
      Robert W. Kenny, Charles H. Houston, Bartley C. Crum and Martin Popper for petitioners.
    
      Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Campbell, Robert S. Erdahl and Harold D. Cohen for the United States. Briefs of amici curiae supporting petitioner in No. 248 were filed by Arthur Garfield Hays and Osmond K. Fraenkel for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.; and Allan Rosenberg for the Samuel Adams School for Social Studies.
    Briefs of amici curiae supporting petitioners were filed by Max Rodin for Meiklejohn et al.; Harold M. Sawyer for the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards; William L. Standard for the Congress of American Women and for the Conference of Studio Unions et al.; Victor Rabinowitz, Nathan Witt and Leonard B. Boudin for the American Communications Association (CIO) et al.; Leo J. Linder for the Methodist Federation for Social Action; Samuel Neuburger for the American Slav Congress; Will Maslow, Thurgood Marshall, Shad Polier and Joseph B. Robison for the American Jewish Congress et al.; Lester M. Levin for the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions; and John J. Abt for the Progressive Party of America et al. Louis Waldman filed a brief, as amicus curiae, for the American Writers Association, Inc., supporting the United States.
   Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice Douglas are of the opinion certiorari should be granted.

Mr. Justice Clark took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.  