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Mayfair Times. It was a great place to grow up in the 1940s.
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Peeks Across the Rooftops. Philadelphia’s Market-Frankford Elevated.
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Memories of Juniata Park. Starting grammar school at the start of World War II.
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Zambo. Dom Zambino was my neighbor and a good friend as well.
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It’s Only a Game. It is a Philadelphia basketball legend: Wilt Chamberlain’s Overbrook High against West Catholic High for the City Championship in 1953.
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El Cid. Joe Moran may not have been the best teacher in my high school; but there was none better.
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A Brothers’ Boy. It was an embarrassing high school experience that need not have been. (Previously titled, “Kipling Anyone?”)
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A Piece of the Ball. The start of varsity soccer at St. Joseph’s College.
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Dreams Don’t Last. Working on the waterfront in old Philadelphia; I thought that it would never change.
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A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation. Jay loved to show off in his new Chevrolet Bel Air convertible.
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The Piggy Bank Story. Pat Martin was the type of guy who would give you the shirt off his back.
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Local Color. Three Philadelphia college grads report for duty at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia.
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Twilight Times. These are the highlights of our experience at the USMC’s 25th Officer Candidates Course in 1959.
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Reflections. Sometimes we see ourselves as if reflected in a mirror. These are a few of those occasions.
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Route 66. It is a national highway, a popular song and a Philadelphia trolley car. In 1960, they all came together when I was assigned to Camp Pendleton, California.
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Sam Clemente. Sam Conroy is one of those unforgettable characters who is indelibly identified with the USMC and San Clemente.
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By Any Other Name? Surprising similarities between Philadelphia and the Mission at San Juan Capistrano.
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Play It Again, Sam. A haunting melody that I first heard in the Far East follows me back to Philadelphia.
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Pappy O’Rourke. Sergeant Patrick O’Rourke was one of a kind but only a few of us could get away with calling him “Pappy.”
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De Minimis non Curat Rex. Denny King had a penchant for driving people up a wall – and sometimes with good reason.
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Cuba Libre. In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis sent shock waves around the world – even to Okinawa and the Seventh Fleet.
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One More for the Road. The long drive from San Francisco to Philadelphia, returning from active duty in the Marine Corps.
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Echoes of Equidistant. Vince Nolan is a piece of work. He has been our comedian for half a century.
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Jumbo. Jim Morris was a great athlete and a congenial friend. Just don’t call him “Flabby.”
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Playing It Cozy. Joe never took lessons; he played the piano “by ear.” His song “On the Way to Cape May” became a Philadelphia favorite.
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It Was One of those Days. Sometimes everything goes right and people think that you are a wizard.
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A Common Enemy. This is my best effort at describing the life of my father John St. John.
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The More She Cries. Grandmothers are sweet, dainty old ladies – right?
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Memories of the Impossible Dream. Trucking companies and their lawyers thought that it was impossible to obtain new authority throughout all the U.S.
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I Wonder What Became of Sally. My father was fascinated by Sally Rand, the fan dance queen. Now, I shared a drink with Sally in Des Moines, Iowa.
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London Bridge. It sounded like a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry. It was made from polished granite that came from the London Bridge.
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It’s a Cup! Buddy Segal’s method of preparing witnesses to testify at trials and other hearings – a process that old-time lawyers call “horse-shedding.”
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Frank B. Murdoch: A Reminiscence. Recollections of a Philadelphia lawyer who dealt with a lifetime of tragedy but never lost his sense of humor.
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Barney Smolens: A Reminiscence. Memories of a pixie-ish trial lawyer who survived a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II.
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George the Third. Reminiscences of an outstanding Philadelphia trial lawyer, George P. Williams, III.
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A Moral Issue. The story of Bernard G. Segal and civil rights issues in the 1960s, told through the words of Segal in public addresses and private conversations.
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Mary Alice Duffy: A Reminiscence. Judges who thought that women were not tough enough to handle criminal cases never met Mary Alice.
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Gentleman Jim. Philadelphia lawyer Jim McEldrew often was aloof and arrogant, but his underlying tenacity was explained when someone mentioned Iwo Jima.
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Ex Libris. Lawyers are bookish people; and they tend to frequent places that deal in books.
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The Expert Witness. This story is based on George C. Clarke, an engineer who testified in many cases about the products he designed for Sears Roebuck & Co.
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The Great Pretenders. A lawyer once commented to me that “we deal in perception.” Indeed we do!
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Ben and I. Much to my surprise, I was appointed by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to advise it on the final pay-out under the Will of Benjamin Franklin.
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A Chance Encounter. I did not recognize him; nor did I realize that he was famous. Also, I did not realize that Minnesota Fats and I had a mutual friend.
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The Fall Guy. Scooter Libby was an associate in my law firm. Later, he achieved prominence by being convicted of perjury in a questionable court action.
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The Great Gatsby. This is a commentary on a magazine article about a flamboyant Philadelphia lawyer.
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The Write Stuff. Like fishermen, writers often regret the one that got away. This is such a story and it involves several top-flight people.
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The Old Fox. A shorter version of the previous story.
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The Chaplains’ Tales. Two navy chaplains and their connections to Philadelphia.
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Raw Judicial Power. The story of my involvement in the abortion issue in the Philadelphia Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
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The Past is Prologue. A narrative about the difficulties of writing memoirs based on one’s recollections of past events.
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I Poosh; I Poosh; I Poosh. A lifetime of athletic activity leads one to appreciate the work of those persons who organize the athletic events.
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The Eye of the Clock. Thoughts about advancing age.
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A Song in my Heart. A reminiscence of the tunes that play and replay in my mind over the years.
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Peter Stephen DuPonceau: A Man of Letters. He came to America as a teenager, serving as secretary to Baron von Steuben.
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James Wilson: A Forgotten Father. A “founding father” of the U.S. Constitution, he came to a tragic end while serving as a justice on the Supreme Court.
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John Graver Johnson, the Giant of the Philadelphia Bar. The son of the village blacksmith, he became the greatest trial lawyer in the English-speaking world.
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William A. Schnader: The Father of the Uniform Commercial Code. Partially paralyzed by a stroke, he pursued the cause of the U.C.C.
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Owen Wister: When You Call Me That, Smile! He did not care for the practice of law, but he wrote the classic American cowboy novel, “The Virginian.”
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This is Our Bar! An unofficial bicentennial history of The Philadelphia Bar Association and its members.
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Let Lawyers Talk to the Jury. An article that was published in the American Bar Association’s Journal of Litigation.
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Relativity. A rambling piece about the interrelationships of Philadelphia’s Graham clan.
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A Command Performance. A look back from a perspective of 46-years upon my initial meeting with the battalion commander.
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With a Little Bit of Luck. After nearly a year in the Far East, my tour of duty with the Marines turned into a shopping spree.
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Bock’s Pocono Trail Lodge. It was our getaway in the Pocono Mountains, using the old executive retreat of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
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The Red Mass. An old-time newspaperman and a celebrated lawyer spar with each other about the subject matter of a newspaper article.
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The Vertical Challenge. Thoughts about coming up short, and about Sol Flick, the watchmaker’s lawyer.
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A Tale of Two Movies. My thoughts about the manner in which the Japanese army was represented in two movies about the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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Avoiding Deconstruction: Factoring Companies Thwart the Aims of the Structured Settlement Protection Act. An article published in The Philadelphia Lawyer magazine.
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The Rainmakers. Reflections of two top-flight lawyers and the contrast between them and a present-day public servant.
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The Dutchman. He was a frumpy middle-age man wearing denim overalls. What could he know about baseball?
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The Small Case Lawyer. Stories of two effective witnesses in two small cases that I handled.
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A Farewell to Sadie. At the 50th anniversary of my graduation from college, nostalgic memories of a good friend.
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The Oxford & Lower Dublin Poorhouse. The old stone building and its horse farm served the community for more than 200 years, changing with the times -- just like the rest of us. |