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...Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Bootblacks, by Horatio Alger...
...family became so popular that it soon grew into a sort of Rhodes scholarship of U.S. law. Clerking for the Supreme Court is now a launching pad for all kinds of later fame -be it heading the State Department (Dean Acheson), running U.S. Steel (Irving Olds), going to jail (Alger Hiss), becoming a leading sociologist (David Riesrnan), or returning as a Supreme Court Justice (Byron White). "It is much more than a meal ticket," explains one ex-clerk. "It's an incalculably valuable experience...
...managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction...
...Harvard's editors are sticklers for detail, specialize in clarifying "what the law is," typically dug out the dusty minutes of an 1815 bank officers' meeting last winter in order to verify one quote. Among Harvard's star sticklers: the late Robert A. Taft, Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Yale's new President Kingman Brewster...
...Stanford's infant (1948) quarterly is high on punchy prose, has broken new ground ever since Volume I probed the legalities of rainmaking in a piece titled "Who Owns the Clouds?" Later it debunked Alger Hiss's contention that a "second" typewriter was used to frame him. In 1963 it examined the high-priced funeral industry well before Author Jessica Mitford's bestseller on the subject. Too new to have many famed alumni-Idaho's Senator Frank Church is one-the Stanford review this year boasts a girl president, Brooksley Born, 22, whose law-school grade...