Word: arlen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Panther raid may have begun the dismantling of the Daley machine. Michael J. Arlen largely ignores the complex political consequences of the case in his little book on Hanrahan's trial. But An American Verdict is a very effective novelistic piece of reporting in which the trial becomes a symbol of the modern American city...
...Arlen deftly interweaves episodes in the Hanrahan trial with scenes showing the inner workings of the city. His descriptive mistakes show some unfamiliarity with the details of Chicago life, but his overall analysis is remarkably perceptive. Arlen can start with a little episode or a single phrase and eventually sum up an attitude of the police or an ethnic group or even the changing moods which strike a whole city...
Chicago political figures tend to make brash and revealing statements which less entrenched politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...
ARTHUR COHEN, 43, boss of the U.S.'s largest publicly held real estate enterprise, Manhattan-based Arlen Realty & Development (holdings: $1.5 billion). Cohen is worth more than $50 million. Began in 1954 by building houses on Long Is land; made his first million speculating in Florida. Went on to construct luxury apartments and small office buildings...
...Arlen's principal focus is the trial of State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, who was accused - and acquitted - of conspiring to obstruct justice in inves tigating the facts of the police raid, in which the killings were presented as "self-defense." Arlen surrounds his tri al narrative with the atmospherics of Chicago. But it is mostly offhand, as if Arlen knows, as the reader knows, that Mike Royko has done Richard Daley better and Norman Mailer got Chica go down much better five years...