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...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...
...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...
...They came in one morning and said, 'We've got the goods on Alger Hiss.' This was in '45, mind you, long before anything else broke...
Bill, a lifelong Democrat, joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951, soon locked horns with the late Senator Joe McCarthy over a $400 contribution he had made to a defense fund for Alger Hiss. "I believed him worthy of a full defense," he says, "and the Hiss family didn't have the means." The fact that Bill was married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state...