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Early Life: Born in Newark on April 25, 1906, the son (one of eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
Legal Career: Practiced law with a Newark firm until 1942, when he joined the Army and specialized in industrial and labor-manpower cases; in 1944 was made Chief of Civilian Personnel of Army Ordnance, was discharged as a colonel a year later. He returned to his law firm only upon his insistence that he be made a partner, subsequently built a widespread reputation as an expert on labor...
After delivering a dedication address at the New Jersey Turnpike's Holland Tunnel-Newark extension, New Jersey's bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 48, was asked, "Does this road lead to matrimony?" With his pretty guest, Helen Stevenson, a distant cousin of Adlai E. Stevenson, standing a few feet away, Meyner gazed down the broad $120 million turnpike extension and murmured, "I don't see any signs...
...suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch-the doctors found that 23% had been ill or injured...
Estate Wagon. In Newark, attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley...