Italian-American childhood in San Francisco; young attorney in North Beach, 1928-1933; tutelage under A. P. Giannini of the Bank of Italy; assistant U.S. attorney, 1933-1944: cases involving accomplices of "Baby Face" Nelson, Alien Enemy Control Board, Japanese internment, habeas corpus and Alcatraz Island Prison; judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, appointed by President John F. Kennedy, 1961-present: comment on antitrust, prisoners' rights, conscientious objection and other cases, committee membership in Judicial Conference of the U.S.; craft of trial court judging.