Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORTUNE COOKIE. Offering the season's lushest crop of crass, Walter Matthau leers, sneers and swaggers as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who cons his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) into faking an insurance claim in Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores...
Gilmour's attorney pulled out all the stops. Noting that the trial had been "followed with concern by a modest grey-haired man" - his client's father - Lawyer Semyon Khayfits cited Gilmour's "good reputation at the University of Utah." "In the faraway town of Salt Lake City," he intoned, "Craddock Gilmour's return is anxiously awaited by his mother...
Upgrading v. Renaming. Not so for lesser law schools, scrambling for higher status, better students and more foundation funds. Moreover, claims Oklahoma City University Law Dean John G. Hervey, a lawyer with a mere LL.B. is outranked by any Ph.D. when it comes to jobs, pay and promotion in teaching and government. Most of Hervey's "evidence" fails to impress skeptics, who point out that law professors are the country's highest paid teachers, whatever their degrees. And what Supreme Court law clerk was ever picked because he had a J.D. rather than an LL.B.? Whether...
Often the purpose is to launch a new enterprise. Manhattan Adman Burt Pence, 28, and Lawyer Todd Merer, 27, invited 2,000 guests to a party in Greenwich Village last week with the theme, "Sin and Soul in the Seventies," featuring a "monster happening" at midnight with a recording of Kate Smith singing The Star-Spangled Banner, a karate exhibition, and chorines in fluorescent tights and gas masks. The party grossed $5,500, and its profits will go to finance a boutique the pair hopes to open. If they don't have enough for that, they will...
Always a soldier's soldier, he also had to make sense to civilians. In Henry Stimson, a lawyer and a courtly gentleman, he found a perfect Secretary of War, but by no means a complaisant one. Stimson and Marshall both policed the perimeter of their authority and never let develop the kind of abrasive relations that were common in Washington between politician and the military...