Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JORDE Law Clerk to Justice Brennan 1973 Term Washington...
...landed a $30-a-week job as a mail clerk at MGM, and kept his ambition in fighting trim by calling all the executives by their first names. "Hiya, Joe," he grinned at Producer Joe Pasternak, who stopped for a moment, then threw out the classic line: "Hey, kid -how'd ya like to be in pictures?" Pasternak gave Nicholson a script, and told him where to show up for the screen test. Nicholson looked the script over but did not realize that he was supposed to memorize his lines. The test was a disaster, and Nicholson was back...
That same year Beate also tried to kidnap Lischka, now a senior bank clerk in Cologne, and transport him to France. Under German law he can neither be extradited nor retried in a German court. The kidnap attempt, on a Cologne street, failed when Lischka's shouts frightened off Beate's four male accomplices...
...attended the University of California at Berkeley, and later its law school. After World War I, from which Warren emerged as an infantry first lieutenant, two old chums recommended him as a law clerk to the California assembly's judiciary committee. He was in public life for good...
Curbing Rancor. Although some of his fellow justices carped about Warren's lack of legal scholarship, he transformed the sometimes fractious atmosphere of the Vinson Court by a mixture of charm, tact and candor. One law clerk, quoted in Leo Katcher's Warren biography, said: "What was lacking was a spirit of 'collegiality.' . . . Warren's job was to try to bring personalities together, not beliefs. He couldn't ask anyone to abandon a deeply held belief, but to accept opposition without rancor...