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...Lips. Hopkins, who is 59 and looks scarcely 49, is little known because he guards his own affairs almost as closely as the AEC guards his submarines. California-born, lawyer-trained (Harvard Law '21), he learned about corporations in the top-drawer Wall Street law firm now called Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He learned about finance as assistant to Secretaries of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills and William H. Woodin. In 1933 he came to New York to help run an investment trust (Mayflower Associates Inc.), in 1937 became a director of Connecticut's famed old Electric Boat...
...former student of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, McCloy jokes over the fact that the Justice did not remember him at Harvard: "He kept all the smart boys in the front row." McCloy headed for the big law firms of Wall Street. First with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, later with Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, he and other fledgling "clerks" read and studied morning & night, drafting contracts, charters and all the other documents of corporate and financial...
...Cravath's clients, Bethlehem Steel, had a stake in the Black Tom case, then being argued before the International Court at The Hague. McCloy, who on his wedding day in 1930 had sailed to take over Cravath's Paris office, went to observe the Hague proceedings and came away fascinated. He devoted the better part of his next ten years to the case, one of the most celebrated in modern international...
...U.S.C.'s Jeff Cravath, Columbia's Lou Little, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, Georgia's Wally Butts, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, S.M.U.'s Matty Bell...
...Jeff Cravath has helped by calling him "the best end U.S.C. ever...