Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progressive members. Olesen is a tall, slightly stooped young man, who roams around the Committee room during meetings, whispering messages into his fellow Independent's ears, always appearing to be lining up the votes for some obscure maneuver. He cross-examines witnesses with the pugnacious gusto of a TV lawyer, and has attacked Mrs. Ackermann with such virulence that Mayor Hayes has sometimes interrupted to ask for a return to the question at hand...
When the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., acting as executor, sought to determine the value of Miss Atwood's holdings, it discovered that the holdings did not seem to be all there. In a suit filed on behalf of the estate, bank lawyers allege that Fisher has already been well compensated for his services to Miss Atwood. Soon after he became the lawyer for her and her brother Edwin, he persuaded them that in payment for work on a lawsuit they should sign over what amounted to 35% of their King Ranch inheritance. For other legal work...
N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund Lawyer Mel Zarr, who argued the case, naturally was pleased. "Carrying these laws on the books is dangerous," he said. "They grant too much discretion to police. This is the front wave of legal decisions to come...
...nearly two years later, De Bella has yet to see a cent of his inheritance. The will leaving everything to him naturally also disinherited a number of relatives. One, Mrs. Elise Baldwin, sister to Alice Atwood, is contesting the new will. Also contesting is Miss Atwood's lawyer, Thomas Hart Fisher, who came up with the news that an earlier will had left the estate to him "in grateful recognition of the many years during which he has been my friend, counselor and attorney." Fisher contends that the new will is invalid since Miss Atwood was "in her dotage...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...