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...firm welcome him back? The decision lay with the 34 partners, and at first many seemed inclined to forgive Fortas' questionable relationship with convicted Stock Manipulator Louis Wolfson. Then a number of partners began to harden their view. In the end, only Founding Partners Paul Porter and Thurman Arnold argued strongly for their old colleague (Fortas' wife Carolyn, also a partner, abstained). By an overwhelming majority, the partners have now reached "an understanding": Fortas will not be taken back...
...justice. At his urging, Arnold, Fortas, and Porter, his law firm in Washington for nearly two decades, took on something like 100 free cases?far more than normal legal ethics would dictate. "He had a strong feeling that a law firm should not be operated completely for profit," says Thurman Arnold, a New Deal trustbuster and former federal appeals judge...
...bench, some say, he is no more agreeable. "Abe Fortas," declares one acquaintance, "is arrogant and abrasive." Says another: "He's cold, distant and cryptic." Others describe him as shy, reticent with people. "Well," allows Thurman Arnold, his former partner and a good friend, "he doesn't go around kissing babies...
...thermal inversions" that viewers wondered if they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York...
...most formidable intellectuals in American history. DuBois was the first Negro to receive a Harvard Ph.D. (in 1895), and his doctoral dissertation had the honor of being published as the first volume in the famous Harvard University Historical Series. Peggy Strong did the dignified portrait of Dr. Howard Thurman, now Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel at Boston University...