He liked to quote Lord Sankey's words on the presumption of innocence, the "single golden thread" that ran through English law.Mr Mortimer, also tracing that thread, took on the most celebrated free-speech cases of the 1970s, and won them all.
Szwed also traces an offshoot of that project, the 1947 movie "New Orleans," an altogether more conventional Hollywood production about jazz musicians that features Holiday in the unfortunate role of a housemaid with a gift for singing the blues.
(The other is Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a city that also traces its history to the Bronze Age).
The Hadzabe, too, have an extremely ancient lineage that also traces back close to the root of the human family tree, the Stanford team reports today in the journal Current Biology.
It also traces the money that China says flows into Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese city, to show how much of it often ends up in investments elsewhere.
"The Long Goodbye" also traces the second crossing that death mandates: the architecture of mourning that enables survivors to go on.
"I asked her: 'What's your name', and she told me it was Rosanne Cash, and I said: 'That's strange because Johnny Cash also traced his family to here.' 'That was my dad,' she said.
The commission must also trace the facts and circumstances that connect the implosions of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers and the American International Group.
You can also trace the path of other unicorns that have disappeared, including a couple that sold at fire-sale prices.
Perhaps this cynism can be also traced back to media images that blast the same workplace culture that has dominated the tube since 1950s.
