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...minors. The founders, Movie Theater Projectionist Donald Bell"and Camera Repairman Albert Howell, were only 38 and 28 when they set up shop in 1907, and youth has been serving the top jobs ever since. In 1917, the reins went to 30-year-old Joseph McNabb, who in turn was followed in 1949 by 29-year-old Charles H. Percy, who seven years ago turned the presidency over to 34-year-old Peter G. Peterson...
Popular Conscience. Like his idol Justice Brandeis, Frankfurter prized "the right to be left alone." Thus, he condemned lawless police searches and denounced wiretapping. He wrote the famous 1943 McNabb decision excluding confessions obtained from federal prisoners during unnecessary delays in arraignment. "The history of liberty," he said, "has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards...
Hymns & Games. When Percy graduated in 1941, a fulltime job was waiting for him at Bell & Howell. Joe McNabb put him in charge of the company's newborn defense-contracts department. Two years later Chuck joined the Navy, where his business experience led to a post in procurement operations...
During his three-year Navy career, Percy married Jeanne Dickerson, daughter of a Chicago plumbing contractor. They had three children-twin girls and a boy. Percy meanwhile had returned to Bell & Howell, become McNabb's right-hand man and been named to the board of directors-at 23. In 1947 Jeanne, who was not a Christian Scientist, underwent an operation for ulcerative colitis that was deemed successful. Still, her doctors recommended a second operation. This one brought on complications. Jeanne was given penicillin, to which she suffered adverse reactions. Other drugs were tried, but to no avail. After...
...Crime Climate. Kamisar reports a similar reaction to the 1957 McNabb-Mallory rule, which forbids federal (but not state) police from using statements produced during prolonged precommitment interrogation. Washington, D.C.'s Police Chief Robert V. Murray has argued ever since 1957 that crime in the capital steadily decreased during the four previous years, and steadily increased thereafter. As it happens, says Kamisar, 1957 marked "the alltime low for crime under the District's modern reporting system." In the full decade 1950-60, "although the national crime rate soared 98% , the District's rate barely rose...