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Attorney's office. They were William Bernard Herlands, 30, chunky, pink-cheeked, piano-playing Columbia graduate who VT?.S to become his right-hand man; suave Jacob Joseph Rosenblum, 38, who sent Banker Jo- seph Harriman to jail and might have convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from the Reform Administration of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Tammany was unable to keep the Board of Estimate from appropriating his expenses, which have run to $280,000 per year. Police Commissioner Valentine gave him a special squad of policemen and detectives too young to be tainted by corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France at 45, and a fight with Tammany for his seat on the bench. Last week when defense attorneys in the current restaurant racket trial suggested that he disqualify himself from presiding because he had shown "unconscious or subconscious" prejudice in favor of Prosecutor Dewey, the rubicund justice smilingly consulted his "moral conscience," declined.