he provided intelligence analysis that was critical to the success of the battle in latay gulf in 1944. when the u.s. bunker hill was burning at sea he represented the epitome of courage, physical strength and selflessness in a crisis. but the press wanted to know whether he would play professional football again. and his parents were hounded by the wire services for an answer. he answered the question himself by enrolling at yale law school and announcing that he was through with football. after graduating first in his class, he clerked for chief justice fred m. vincent. when white finished his term, the chief justice gave him a formal framed photograph of himself to commemorate the term and inscribe "to byron "whizzer" white whose future promises to be as brilliant as his past." when the clerkship ended, white faced the choice of where to practice law. many of his fellow clerks stayed in washington but the pull of home and family was too strong and he returned to colorado to practice in denver. besides, denver suggested, but did not promise, that he would be able, as he told a fellow