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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only apparent loser-apart from live-ins who may be sued in the future for re-education costs-was Michelle Marvin's flamboyant lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson. His contingency fee was a third of her award. Since Mitchelson claims to have spent about 5,000 hours working on the case, his fee works out to about $6.50 an hour. That will not get your lawn mowed in Beverly Hills...
...races under the black-and-blue silks of Harry Meyerhoff's Hawksworth Farm. "Black and blue," says Meyerhoff, a retired Baltimore real estate developer, "is what happens to horse owners." More accurately, black and blue is what happens to Spectacular Bid's opponents. Winner of the Eclipse Award as the nation's best two-year-old colt last year, the horse has rolled up five straight victories this spring, running away from all challengers in the East. All together, Spectacular Bid has been victorious in ten out of twelve starts. In the latest win, last week...
Only last year did Franklin ride his first race. (He won.) The 5-ft. 106-lb. jockey came home a winner 262 times in 1978 and received his own Eclipse Award as the nation's top apprentice jockey. Yet Franklin's handling of Spectacular Bid has sometimes been amateurish. In two races he has allowed the horse to be boxed in at the rail, then failed to take advantage of an opening. On one of those occasions, the Florida Derby, Franklin rode Spectacular Bid into so many roadblocks that the colt had to come from 14 lengths behind...
...small newspaper likes nothing better than a national story in its own backyard. Last week at the Point Reyes (Calif.) Light (circ. 2,700), the paper's own backyard was a national story. The Light was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative articles about the activities of Synanon, the controversial drug-rehabilitation group with headquarters six miles away. Out-of-town journalists quickly descended on the paper's storefront office in Point Reyes Station (pop. 420) to interview the Light's owners, Cathy, 34, and David Mitchell, 35. Armed with Stanford journalism degrees and experience...
ROLLING STONE magazine good-naturedly bestowed last year's Quote of the Year Award upon Frank Zappa for describing "rock journalism" as "People who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Articulate and outspoken, Zappa has never been afraid to bite the "invisible hand" that feeds him, even insulting the "boys and girls" who buy his records and scream for "Louie, Louie" from concert hall audiences...