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jon ‘executives. Foxtas & Porter have some- lly or collectively—which ess men appraise as rare could be any one of several ings becaus h individually and collec: _ tive yp they ‘are a remarkable trio. WHURMAN ‘anew | is a fight-loving West- erner, who has a flamboyant sense of humor and one of the best legal minds in the country. He has been described as an “intaitional genius’ on a number of occa- sions by men who are careful in their choice of words, |. Gertainly, Arnold ‘has many of the. fainilier attributes of genius, including a broad streak af eccentricity. He thinks so much more rapidly than he is able to speak that his con- versation is. apt to. degenerate into an almost incoherent succession of elliptical sentences and phrases that mean a lot to Arnold, but — very little to the unpracticed listener. Any- ene who has ever talked to him for five | | minutes will forever stand in awe of Miss _ Marguerite O'Brien, who has been his secre- tary for sixteen years. He is aise, in the classic: mold, absent- minded. There are innumerable anecdotes. about occasions on which he has taken the wrong train, gone to the wrong courtroom, or argued the wrotig case. The best, which is surely apocryphal. relates that Arnold once delivered a masterful summation on behalf of the plaintiff, only to be reminded that he was counsel for the defendant. Whereupon, _ he made an even more powerful presentation, an which he refuted his previous arguments on every point, and won the case. At sixty, Arnold is now well embarked on his fifth major career. His first was as a politi- cian in his home town of Laramie, Wyoming. "He began running for office as soon as he got home from Harvard Law School and finally managed to win ¢lection as Mayor of Laramie, by nine votes, Somewhat later, he won a seat in the state legislature. He is best remem- bered there for an occasion on which he nominated himself for Bow fi libustered competition, as a pi character. ec le j 1: a Tow with the ae ea who istrar Br niaintaining: ina eke | te f he had | a (shea night to take a horse: 6 might acquire one if the Registrar gee further to ay about the eg book, The Folklore of Calis “My. I _ velt, who agi bad tread the fort in 1937 to ‘be Pe Attorney os in ao charge of the Anti-Trust Division of the Jus- tice bape Some of the: ang tors who eget by deflecting oe att into purely moral and ceremoni After eating several pages of | sparkling prose, Arnold persuaded tors that he auld vigotary He filed 930 suits 5 acuine valet o in restraint of trade—mote suits th has been filed in the entire previous history of the Sherman Act. Mi precedents | as he went, Arn id lessly inte such giants’ as the American ical Association, Standard Oil New Jersey, Associated Press, 2 the horror of Democratic po