Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortune's Smile. Pershing entered the Army almost by accident. The son of a section foreman from Laclede, Mo., he hoped to become a lawyer, entered West Point only to get a free education. He talked of leaving because promotion was slow. At 40, after service in Indian battles, Cuba and the Philippines, he was still only a first lieutenant...
...Arthur M. Cathcart, 75 (34 years at Stanford). Last week it named two more: Max Radin, 68, University of California philosopher and law historian, and Ernest G. Lorenzen, 72, a veteran of 27 years at the Yale School of Law. Coming next year: Harvard's famed constitutional lawyer Thomas Reed Powell...
...professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
...educated in New York's public schools, Frieda Hennock bucked parental disapproval to study law. At 21 she became the youngest woman member of the New York State Bar. Later she joined the rock-ribbed Republican law firm of Choate, Mitchell & Ely, where she was the only woman lawyer and only Democrat. She has never married (although "I believe in marriage and I want the companionship of a wonderful...
Howard's father, Howard Robard Hughes Sr., was not exactly a nobody, although he came from a place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...