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None for the Road. In Paris, contending that a client charged with reckless driving on the way home from a nightclub had simply been too sober, Lawyer Rene Floriot asked the court to imagine sitting up until 5 a.m. "without letting champagne refresh your ideas and your palate," concluded: "Under these circumstances . . . a catastrophe is inevitable...
...months ago, Petersen's lawyer leaked the information that his client, no Communist, was accused of spying for The Netherlands. The Dutch Embassy in Washington promptly admitted receiving secret intelligence from Petersen, but the Dutch said that they assumed Petersen's superiors knew he was passing on the information. This was an odd assumption since one of the secrets the Dutch learned from Petersen was the fact that the U.S. had cracked Dutch codes...
...first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead of a rheumatic heart. A brassy, card-carrying lawyer named Barney Castle helps save the boy from a lynch mob and takes him on as a client, but only for the Commie purpose of using Angel's case as party-line propaganda. While he rakes in folding money at a "Free Angel Rally," Barney turns over the boy's actual defense to David Blake, a solemn young law pro fessor out for "practical experience...
...Follette Progressive, a New Deal Democrat, and finally as a rugged independent. If he was inconstant in his politics, he spent his life in single-purposed dedication to man's right to his own freedom. It made no difference to Hays if he happened to disagree with a client's views: the heart of the matter, he always insisted, was whether or not an individual's liberties had been damaged. Lawyer Hays was able to defend Harry Bridges' freedom of action and Henry Ford's freedom of speech with equal fervor...
...certified public accountant as a professional man does not have to become bemired in the vicissitudes of his clients. Except for the loss of a fee, he need not be too disturbed nor is his reputation impaired by the financial failure of a client. He does not have to become involved in the personal jealousies and disputes of company officials or office personnel. He puches no time clocks...