RICHARD MILLS, District Judge.
The old judge had a picture, prominently displayed, of an English barrister flourishing an oyster on a fork as two countrymen, holding the shells, looked on agape. Underneath was the couplet:
A pearly shell for you and me;
The oyster is the lawyer's fee.
HARVEY O'CONNOR, MELLON'S MILLIONS, THE BIOGRAPHY OF A FORTUNE 8...
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