Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the courts is a case that marks a milestone in this facet of the law. The plaintiff is an illegitimate child, conceived during the rape of a hospitalized mental patient. Suit has been filed in her behalf to recover damages for the mental anguish of being born a bastard...
...could prove negligence. But it demanded dismissal of the infant's case without a trial. Never before had such a case been successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain color, another because of race, one for being born with a hereditary disease, another for inheriting unfortunate family characteristics...
Cries for Justice. New York Court of Claims Judge Sidney Squire ruled that the case must go to trial nonetheless. "The novelty and lack of precedent for declaring that the baby bastard has a cause of action should not be a deterrent to such ruling," ruled Judge Squire, quoting the late jurist, Sir Percy Winfield: "If that were a valid objection, the common law would now be what it was in the Plantagenet period." The state's motion that the bastard's case, if tried and won, would leave the courts open to an endless array of claims...
...international swindler. Short, fat and 50, he wears pearl grey ties and a perpetual look of hurt innocence. Although he pleaded guilty, he continues to blame his troubles on jealous competitors ("Powerful forces were working against me") and on the Department of Agriculture ("They called me a guinea bastard down there...
Despite success, Marvin will have a hard time forsaking tough roles com pletely. "I love violence," he says, and it is ingrained. After getting bounced from eleven different prep schools, he tried war. As a Marine scout-sniper, he made 21 Pacific island landings until "some Jap bastard on Saipan" got him just below the spine; he spent 13 months learning how to move again. "You Finked Out." As an actor, he specialized in killers, but he became best known as a cop. Lieut. Ballinger of TV's M Squad. Even there he was tough-"no broads, no mother...