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Frankfurter's "judicial restraint" seemed completely antithetical to his personal activism. Born in Vienna, the scion of a long line of rabbis, he came to New York at the age of twelve, his English so poor that he decided a man named "laundry" must be very rich to own so many stores. In 1902, after graduating from C.C.N.Y., he moved on to Harvard Law School. Inevitably, he became editor of the Law Review and wound up No. 1 in his class. By 1917, already on the law school faculty, he was spending most of his time as assistant...
Died. Pierre Taittinger, 77, mayor of Paris during the German occupation, scion of one of France's most illustrious champagne families, whose collaboration with the Nazis, though under duress, won him a short prison term and utter disgrace after the war, but was later credited with saving Paris from the destruction repeatedly ordered by Hitler as Allied armies advanced on the city; of uremic poisoning; in Paris...
Jargon & Tradition. Many of today's City leaders descend from the merchant bankers who bankrolled Britain's colonial expansion and cleared whole continents in the days when sterling was supreme. The most influential among them is the scion of a 200-year-old banking family: George R. S. Baring, 46, third Earl of Cromer, who, as the outspoken and energetic Governor of the Bank of England, was the chief British architect of last fortnight's $3 billion rescue of the pound. At the top of the private banks are scores of modern-day Rothschilds, Schroders, Brandts, Hambros...
...START IN FREEDOM, by Sir Hugh Foot. Scion of a British family that rivals the notorious Mitfords in brilliance and eccentricity, Sir Hugh has spent his adult years and his considerable talents on helping British colonies to independence, and his book is interesting both as memoir and practical political science...
Died. Leonard Florsheim, 84, Chicago transportation tycoon, one of the founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and a scion of the Florsheim shoe family who, with his friend John Hertz, founded the Yellow Cab Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. (the hub of the Chicago Transit Authority's bus routes) and the Omnibus Corp., later to become the Hertz Corp.; after a long illness; in Chicago...