Word: howe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Holmes once said that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." Mark Howe, who had been Holmes' law clerk in 1933-34 and was his biographer, stood in no peril. Howe combined meticulous scholarship in law and history with a life of political and social involvement...
...Howe was deeply rooted in his native New England. His father, Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, was not a native of Boston (his father, also Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, had been Bishop of Central Pennsylvania in the Protestant Episcopal Church), but he came to be the Bostonian of Bostonians, historian of the city's clubs and societies, biographer of its literary figures--including Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Through his mother, too, Mark Howe was descended from a long line of Massachusetts men, including six Josiah Quincys, two of them Mayors of Boston and one a President of Harvard. Howe himself had a Bostonian's distaste for travel and the Puritan's taste for plainness and high standards for one's self...
After a boyhood surrounded by his parents' Boston friends and graduation from Harvard College in 1928, Howe turned at first to a different world, that of film making. He joined Paramount Pictures as a second assistant director and worked on pictures with Jimmy Durante and Fred Allen. Soon, however, Howe was back in Cambridge at the Law School...
Upon his graduation in 1933, his life took a turn that was to have a lasting effect on his career. The late Mr. Justice Frankfurter, then still in his professorial chair at the Law School, selected Howe to be secretary to Holmes. Similar to Holmes in background--both men had grandfathers who were men of the cloth, the father of each was at the center of the literary Boston of his day--Howe was ultimately to become the editor of Holmes' letters and the author of Holmes' biography, unfinished at Howe's death...