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... Felstiner, Doris Ladd, and Catherine LeGrand. Also nurturing students from the lesser sex, he was the principal doctoral adviser to Russell Bartley, Charles Bergquist, Paul Drake, Rollie Poppino, George Schuyler, Carl Solberg, Steve Stein, Richard Walter, and John Wirth. 1 Johnson then turned his...

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