Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-domed, husky (6 ft. 31 in.) Floridian with a deceptive, country-cousin air, Lawyer Boyd comes to the job with impressive professional credentials. A combat pilot with more than 3,000 hours of flying time (World War II and Korea), Boyd served successively on state commissions to improve Florida's aviation, highway and railroad systems. A self-styled "Eisenhower Democrat," he was summoned to Washington by Ike in 1959 to serve on the CAB. After President Kennedy appointed him CAB chairman in 1961, Boyd showed his scrappy independence by voting to deny Boston-based Northeast Airlines' application...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment; Kiss Me, Stupid) tackles that great pastime, cheating the insurance company. His anti-hero is a leering, sneering shyster lawyer, played by Walter Matthau, who pulls the strings for the supposedly injured party, Jack Lemmon, and ends up stealing the show...
Dean Pike became something of an official gadfly and unofficial spokesman for the Episcopal Church. Theologically, even though he had read Tillich and Niebuhr, Pike then was what he calls "smoothly orthodox. I was still a lawyer. I had just changed clients. I was an apologist. My feeling was that you've got to make the church's institution look good." On nondoctrinal controversy, however, he was an unapologetic independent. From the pulpit or on his nationwide Dean Pike TV show, he tangled with Cardinal Spellman on movie
SILENT. As for Danny, he notified his lawyer,removed his shoes, went to sleep in his cell, and prepared to let the prosecutor try to prove his case...
...past, it has been the prosecuting attorney who excelled in public relations and the criminal lawyer who did poorly. It would be an interesting test for me to run sometime...