Word: clerke
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Died. Mark DeWolfe Howe, 60, professor of constitutional law at Harvard, who served his apprenticeship as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (whose life he later chronicled in a definitive biography), went on to become one of the nation's foremost legal historians and teachers and an indefatigable campaigner for civil liberties and rights; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Justice Holmes once said that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." Mark Howe, who had been Holmes' law clerk in 1933-34 and was his biographer, stood in no peril. Howe combined meticulous scholarship in law and history with a life of political and social involvement...
...been elected to the Committee in 1961, considering herself a reformer. Recently she told an Atlantic reporter that she had run for the School Committee because of a long family interest in civic affairs (her father was a prominent Boston judge and for years she was his law clerk) and the relative quietness of the School Committee. In the 1961 campaign there was no mention of the problems of Negro education and Mrs. Hicks campaigned on promises to pay attention to educational rather than political problems and to restore Boston Latin School to greatness...
...trousers splitting beneath his tails. With a laugh, he flew through the rest of his act, but next day decided to take steps. He trotted over to Saks Fifth Avenue, asked the rather elegant salesman for one pair of men's nylon tricot boxer shorts, pure black. The clerk blanched, then to his own amazement discovered that the store did indeed have one pair of black nylon shorts. "Do you mind, sir, if I ask, why black?" he said. Stiffening, Ray mugged: "I, sir, am in mourning...
...never met Greenglass when he said he did. They said Gold's hotel registration card was forged (supposedly by the FBI). Wholly unproved, ruled Judge Weinfeld, quietly noting that Sobell's petition contained no affidavit from the one person who knows the facts-the still available room clerk who presumably handled the card...