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...Teacher; freshman hockey; varsity hockey; Varsity Club; Kirkland House Social Committee; H-R Young Democrats; H-R Catholic Club; Pi Eta Club; Harvard Club of Boston, World War II Memorial Scholar; Rotary International Fellowship Alternate No.1: National Science Foundation undergraduate research in social relations, summer 1966; Combined Charities Solicitor...
Over the past year, Kamisar has slain assorted dragons at 13 high-powered "confession" conferences from Arizona to New Jersey. As a debater, he sometimes verges on logomania-while disarming even his worst enemies with veracity as well as vivacity. As former U.S. Solicitor General (now Federal...
...been far from silent in the past two years. As assistant attorney general for civil rights under Edward A. Brooke, Campbell was responsible for Massachusetts' dramatic defense of the 1965 Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court. He enlisted Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General, to join him in presenting an amicus curiae brief containing arguments the Court later used in declaring its support...
Died. J. Howard McGrath, 62, Democratic politician, a wealthy New England real estate man who was thrice elected Governor of Rhode Island ('40, '42, '44), then served under the aegis of Good Friend Harry S. Truman as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, Democratic National Chairman and, finally, from 1949 to 1952, Attorney General; of a heart attack; in Narragansett, R.I. McGrath's political demise came when Truman ordered him to look into cor ruption in government and McGrath hired Liberal Republican Newbold Morris as a special investigator; Morris began by investigating McGrath, which so enraged...
Bennett was a child of the Midland slums, the son of a domineering and ambitious pawnbroker father who eventually became a fairly prosperous solicitor. Handicapped by a stammer that in childhood made him jerk epileptically and bite the air, he grew up painfully shy and covered his shyness with the show-off's mantle. He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money...