Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Record. As a lawyer, Russell was once a partner of Jimmy Byrnes, former South Carolina Governor, Senator, F.D.R.'s top war mobilizer and Truman's Secretary of State. Russell served for five years in Washington in the '40s as Byrnes's chief deputy in the Office of War Mobilization and later as an Assistant Secretary of State for Administration. While he was president of the University of South Carolina (1952-57), he improved the school's reputation of sleepy mediocrity by recruiting new faculty men from across the country and launching...
...accident, can he go to court and sue for injuries? Only a few years ago, the answer would have been no. Now, in many courts around the world, the answer would be a highly qualified yes. Writing in the Michigan Law Review, Dr. David A. Gordon, a South African lawyer, notes that the law in most Western nations is finally beginning to recognize the rights of the unborn plaintiff...
Christian Viewpoint. New medical knowledge has led some courts to adopt a stand that the Roman Catholic Church has held for years-that a child is a distinct person with rights of his own as soon as he is conceived. Doctors have now proved even beyond a lawyer's doubts that the fetus is most susceptible to lasting defects from injuries and drugs during the first three months after conception. As a result, juries are now far more able to assess responsibility and fix damages...
Baltimore's pride is the team fielded by the Mt. Washington Club-an organization of old braves, some of whom have been out of college for ten years or more. The coach is a torts lawyer, the star attack man a 33-year-old insurance broker; there are also two stockbrokers on the squad. The club pays no salaries, awards no letters, has never even got around to hanging the framed team photographs in its red brick clubhouse five miles from downtown Baltimore. Practice scrimmages are studiedly informal: the losers buy the winners beer. "We just have a good...
...striking and measurable increase in applications from men in their 30s and 40s who want to abandon successful secular careers in everything from baseball to business. About one-third of the candidates at Vanderbilt Divinity School are former business or professional men, including a 43-year-old Memphis lawyer, a 39-year-old trucking-firm vice president, a 38-year-old photographer. Three years ago, at the age of 37, Rion Dixon was an executive of St. Louis' International Shoe Co.; two years ago Robert L. Catlin, then 40, was a Miami real-estate man; now both are ministerial...