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Heart Attack and Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow: Sad and feeling alone, the 13-year-old picked up Irving Stone biography of Clarence Darrow, and devoured it in two days. Then he asked questions about his father life. He learned that his father had been a law student at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, until his own father had a heart attack, and he d dropped out and come home to Niagara Falls, Ont., to run the scrap business with his two younger brothers. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Top lawyer slams business bashing Shortly after he turned 13, Edward Greenspan ventured into the library of his father, a scrap dealer who had just died of a heart attack, and discovered a trove of books about idealistic criminal lawyers from the United States and England. Top criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan was a lion at the bar (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.