In his quiet study in his old-fashioned red brick house on Washington's I ("Eye") Street one evening last week sat a white-haired gentleman enjoying a nation-wide birthday party. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court was 90 in years, in spirit 30. Over the radio great men led by Chief Justice Hughes praised this famed son of a famed father as few living men are praised. They reviewed his long career—thrice-wounded Union soldier, Harvard scholar, Massachusetts judge, senior jurist of the nation's highest court, liberal dissenter from conservative...
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