Business: Trusted Buster

Herbert A. Bergson, Boston-born, Harvard-bred, left a sure thing in his father's law firm to join the Department of Justice in 1934. Except for two wartime years in the Coast Guard, he has been hardworking his way up ever since. A dark-haired six-footer, Bergson last week was named by the President to head the department's Antitrust Division, succeeding John F. Sonnett.

Even for a man who works ten hours and up a day and most of his weekends, it will be a full job. Antitrust currently has 119 cases and 190 investigations pending, will be even busier after July 1, when...

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