But, as the head of one of the biggest agencies in the country remarked to me the other day, when discussing the desirability of retaining local counsel in a distant city: "You know how hard it is to find a lawyer that isn't a dead one." I feel confident that he did not mean this in the sense that there was no good lawyer except a dead lawyer.

What my detective friend probably had in mind was that it was difficult to find a lawyer who brought to bear on a new problem any originality of thought or action.

It is even harder to find a detective who is not in this sense a dead one.

I have the feeling, being a lawyer myself, that it is harder to find a live detective than a live lawyer.

There are a few of both, however, if you know where to look for them.