Word: gideons
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...Washington lawyer, shrewd political adviser and former Justice of the Supreme Court; of a ruptured aorta; in Washington, D.C. Fortas was noted for his superlative legal craftsmanship, which also became a hallmark of the influential law firm he helped found, now known as Arnold & Porter. He argued the landmark Gideon vs. Wainwright case, in which the Supreme Court found in 1963 that poor defendants are entitled to free lawyers. President Lyndon Johnson, of whom he was a confidant, appointed him to the court in 1965. Four years later Fortas became the first Justice to resign under public criticism, amid disclosures...
Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on the staff of the Warren Commission investigating the death of President John F. Kennedy '40, clerked for Justice Warren the next year, and worked as a public defender in San Diego...
...Bronx-born, barrel-chested playwright who won three Oscars (for Marty, The Hospital and Network); of cancer; in Manhattan. First successful in TV, he wrote Marty as a humorous love story, was startled when viewers cried. He had three Broadway hits (Middle of the Night, The Tenth Man and Gideon). The essence of his writing, he said, was to portray "characters caught in the decline of their society...
...campus jobs. As Blackburn Development Director John Perry puts it: "I don't care if your family is going to give us a million dollars, you've still got to work 15 hours a week." At Blackburn, a small private liberal arts college named for the Rev. Gideon Blackburn, who helped found the school in 1837, all 525 students are required to work. Previous generations of students, in fact, built nine of the 16 campus buildings, the brick walls, foundations and roofs...
Lewis also wrote the award-winning Gideon's Trumpet during this period, a book telling the story of one man's attempt to guarantee himself counsel at public expense in a serious criminal case...