Word: bellies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Trial Lawyers Association. Not long ago, Steingold was grumbling to a friend that the lack of a rating had cost him a client, since people looking for out-of-town lawyers tend to check the entries in Martindale-Hubbell. Steingold was grumbling to the right man: Melvin Belli, free-swinging crusader against every variety of tort. Belli promptly filed a class-action suit against Martindale-Hubbell on behalf of Steingold and all other non-rated lawyers (a group that includes Belli himself). His demand...
Haim Bar-Lev, the present Minister of Commerce and Industry but until recently chief of staff of the armed forces (and deputy chief during the war), has stated that "the entrance of the Egyptians into Sinai was not a casus belli." If Gamal Abdel Nasser had not insisted on barring the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, Bar-Lev insists, the war would not have occurred, at least not at that time...
Married. Melvin Belli, 64, flamboyant "King of Torts" with a knack for courtroom theatrics and attracting headlines; and Lia Triff, 23, University of Maryland coed; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Sonora, Calif...
...Melvin Belli, 64, the dapper and orotund lawyer who has had a lifelong love affair with the public eye, was visiting Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts when a hostess singled him out. "You're a very famous lawyer, aren't you?" asked pretty Lia Triff, 23, a student at the University of Maryland. Belli beamed. "Your name begins with a B," said Miss Triff. Belli swelled with such pleasure that, as Lia put it later, "I couldn't resist. I said: 'I've got it -you're F. Lee Bailey...
Flamboyant San Francisco Lawyer Melvin Belli let it be known that he was available. Coppola and Puzo agreed that the actor they saw in the role was Brando (see CINEMA). Once again the Paramount bosses howled. They saw Brando in his more familiar role as the star of money-losing pictures and a moody troublemaker on the set. Brando's shenanigans during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty had become legend, and the star, who is currently divorced from his second wife, was famous for his sometimes tumultuous off-screen romances...