Business: Alcoa Forest

Small behind his vast bench in Manhattan's slick new U. S. courthouse, Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week peered down upon an important gathering. There was grey-haired Arthur Vining Davis, for 29 years president or chairman of huge Aluminum Co. of America. There was stocky Thurman Wesley Arnold, law professor lately made Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Davis was redhaired, big-boned William Watson Smith, Alcoa's trial lawyer for some 25 years. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Arnold was spry, young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years out...

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