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...Lowndes County courthouse - least of all the paunchy, gum-chewing defendant - allowed that to interfere with the civilities. There, grinning across the court room, was Coleman's nephew, Robert Coleman Black, one of his defense attorneys. A defense witness was a first cousin. Mrs. Kelley Coleman, the court clerk, was a cousin by marriage. The defendant's own name even appeared on the list of potential jurors, causing quiet merriment when it was read aloud in court...
Chance in a Clutter. G. & W.'s power source is Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, 39, who has a hard-driving philosophy: "You have to break doors down-anybody can walk through them." A penniless World War II refugee from Austria, he began as a $15-a-week clerk in a Manhattan cotton-brokerage firm, rose to other jobs and founded his own coffee-trading office at 23. Within ten years he had made more than $1,000,000 buying coffee from the Brazilians and selling it to U.S. processors and chain stores. Casting around for a more stable business...
...pattern also suggests "a sinister connection between magistrates and gambling operations." In 1963 Magistrate Ruth Marmon reportedly gave a petty-gambling defendant a choice of "$1,000 bail, or get $100 and it will all be dropped." A state legislator representing the defendant duly paid the magistrate's clerk $100. As a result, Mrs. Marmon and her clerk were indicted this summer...
Russell Hastings Peck '43, secretary of the Law School, yesterday was appointed clerk of the United States District Court for Massachusetts. He will assume his new position in January...
...seems like the sort who can take care of herself. A onetime suburban Boston schoolteacher, she served as law clerk for ten years to her father District Judge William J. Day, and got her own law degree from Boston University in 1955. She now runs a law practice with her brother-when she is not running the schools and her household...