sentences:  Born in Rochester, New York, Bittker attended Cornell University ('38) and Yale Law School ('41).After law school, Bittker clerked for Judge Jerome Frank of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.From 1942 to 43 Bittker worked as an attorney for the Lend-Lease Administration in Washington, D.C. During the next two years Bittker fought and was wounded in World War II, receiving a Purple Heart.