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Southern Methodist University's brisk, balding Robert Gerald Storey, 65, dean of the law school and founder in 1951 of the Southwestern Legal Center at S.M.U., one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. Dean Storey, president of the American Bar Association in 1952-53, is a veteran lawyer who neither conceals nor advertises that he never got a law degree (he did not complete his undergraduate education until 1947). A small-town Texan, he got into practice by reading the law in books that he bought on credit, became a top Dallas attorney and served as U.S. executive counsel at the Nürnberg war crimes trials. Asked to become dean of S.M.U.'s low-grade law school in 1947, he built it into a thriving, well-financed institution, one of the country's best. Four years later he launched the Legal Center (TIME, April 30, 1951; Sept. 10, 1956), a brilliant idea to give U.S. and foreign lawyers a headquarters for topflight research. Fiery Attorney Storey ("I'm a great believer in the rule of law, not men") will continue as Legal Center president. "I don't know why anybody thinks I'm retiring," he says. "I've got enough work to keep me busy for a long time."
George Washington University's Dr. Winfred Overholser, 67, one of the nation's top professors of psychiatry, best known as superintendent of Washington's famed St. Elizabeths Hospital. Overholser's first interest was economics. A witty New Englander (Worcester, Mass.), he went to Harvard Business School, switched careers after a short stint as an attendant in a mental sanitarium. After medical school at Boston University, he wound up as commissioner of Massachusetts' department of mental diseases. When terrible-tempered Governor James Michael Curley fired him in 1936, U.S. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes hired him as head of St. Elizabeths, a federal hospital. Teaching at George Washington University, he concentrated on spreading psychiatry among general practitioners because "there will never be enough psychiatrists to go around." His sane humanism —he is a book collector, music lover, once served as moderator of the American Unitarian Association—stood him in good stead at St. Elizabeths, where he lives with his family. For 13 years he endured endless legal wrangling over his most celebrated patient, Poet Ezra Pound; but more important, he helped make St. Elizabeths one of the most enlightened mental hospitals in the U.S.