Word: reardon
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Most Dangerous. Last fall a "tough" proposal was advanced by the American Bar Association's advisory committee on fair trial and free press, chaired by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Hitting the bar and the police rather than the press, the committee called on all U.S. courts to adopt new rules forbidding police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement going beyond a bare description of the crime and the charges...
Winthrop House came from behind to nip Daveaport, 8-6. After a scoreless first half, Yale blocked a Winthrop punt and ran it for a touchdown. Fullback Larry Hunter hit off tackle to tie it for the Crimson. Faking the same play, quarterback Dave Schraver threw to end Bill Reardon for the decisive two-point conversion...
There is no doubt also that when Paul Reardon resigned as managing partner of a leading Boston law firm in 1954 for the job of special assistant to Governor Christian A. Herter, he was finally doing what he had always considered his calling. "There is no satisfaction I know of like getting into public work, even if it is controversial...
...Judge Reardon, now 56 years old, is still alarmed; he thinks of his work with the ABA Committee as an effort to stop the trend he has long seen in American government. "We are moving away from the rule of law. I remember quite well what I said in Sanders Theatre that night. I would say it is still true. Our daily living has become too complex. Professionally trained people are moving away from involvement in government. Bound up in intense specialties, they lose sight of the larger object of what is good for our democracy. What we need, perhaps...
...Reardon's partner in directing the investigation was another man of public dedication. David Shapiro, graduate of Harvard Law School and a former clerk for Justice John Harlan, left private practice after five years "because I felt there just wasn't any challenge left in it." As Committee Reporter, he acted as liaison between the formal committee and the research staff. During the period of intensive research from December 1964 to October 1965, he sent out periodic communications to the Committee members, keeping them up to date. "We would send out changes [in the conclusions] and they would send...