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After Ben Brooks, the Harvard captain, was decisioned by Dave Schramm in the 177-pound class, the Engineers still had a chance to tie the match with a pin in the unlimiteds. But the Crimson's Tack Chance, enjoying a considerable weight advantage, completely outclassed Brooks Landis for an easy...
Died. James McCauley Landis, 64, onetime dean of Harvard Law School and F.D.R. brain-truster, Tokyo-born son of Presbyterian missionaries, who at the age of 34 drafted a new securities act for Roosevelt, at 37 became one of Harvard Law's youngest deans, then, in 1946, settled down...
As a onetime dean of Harvard Law School, as a member of the Federal Trade Commission under Franklin Roosevelt, and as a crusadingly liberal public servant under two other Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis was known as an unyielding champion of integrity in law and government. But last month (TIME...
Last week Landis was back in the news. In a quiet announcement that seemed designed to pass unnoticed, the U.S. District Attorney in Manhattan said that Landis pleaded guilty to having failed to file federal income tax returns on the $357,927 of income he received from 1956 through 1960...
The proceedings against Landis had been kept extraordinarily quiet by the Kennedy Administration-"boxed in excelsior," as the New York Herald Tribune put it. Newspaper reporters did not even know the hearing was scheduled until after it was over and Landis had departed. But they'll be there for...