Early Life and Education
Born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, Sarokin is the son of a newspaperman who named him after Haddison Ivins, who had been the editor of the Hudson Dispatch. "It's a dreadful name, which I dropped," Sarokin told the New York Times in 1985.
Sarokin earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1950 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1953.
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