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Sportswriters spring to cover player-salary stories because those stories are unprecedented and sensational. They sell papers. Club owners then leap in with calculated news leaks and bleatings of poverty. In a few months we may read reams about Johnny Bench's salary demands and nothing about the Cincinnati Reds' operating profits. The Bench story will be simple and direct. The Reds' ledgers, if they were available, would probably make sense mostly to C.P.A.s. News judgment, not corruption, is at issue. The Bench negotiation is news...
Meanwhile, in our economic system, Bench is worth everything he can get. High salaries are not ruining the Reds or any team or any sport. Despite reckless expansion not one team in an established league has yet gone broke...
...only delighted liberals but also drew surprising praise from some segregationists, who were forced to acknowledge Johnson's fairness and integrity. Johnson, 58, has probably handed down more important and innovative rulings than any trial judge in U.S. history. Almost immediately after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, he began issuing orders that broke down segregation in Dixie. His role as point man for social change brought him and his family ostracism, vituperation, cross burnings and death threats. With Johnson obviously in mind, Alabama Governor George Wallace last year groused that "thugs and federal judge have just...
After the bandages were removed, Joyce turned out to be yet another genius with a domineering wife, and Nora objected when he tried to entertain Cerf with his Irish ballads. "A great fight started when Joyce went over to the piano," Cerf recounts. "There was a long bench in front of it, and Nora grabbed one end and Joyce the other-both pulling in opposite directions. Suddenly she deliberately let go, and Joyce went staggering back and landed on his behind. Nora said, 'Maybe this will teach you a lesson, you drunken ...' " As she saw Cerf...
Court officials almost doubled the number of judges at work and lengthened the bench shifts. But paper work and the difficulty of getting arresting officers to court-many were off duty or back on patrol-slowed arraignments before some judges to as few as two an hour. The delays may jeopardize some cases: the law requires that suspects be arraigned within "a reasonable time...