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...delayed his trial proceedings by arguing 45 pretrial motions himself. The judge pressured Jackson into accepting a licensed attorney for the main trial, and when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded to an IRS claim for more than $120,000 in back taxes by composing a 50-page legal brief and arguing the case in court...
...battered and bruised ruggers never had a chance against the Eagles, still fresh after a romp over the Jumbos. The victory over B.U. was a Pyrrhic affair, for the Crimson lost the services of Mickey Doyle (sprained ankle) and Sal D'agostino (bogus ejection by referee), and the remainder looked to be in less than perfect condition...
...esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending that, at its best, releases the playgoer from Broadway's Imperial Theater...
...received more than 1,000 inquiries its first month. For easy-to-trace families, Debrett's can deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats of arms (TIME, Jan. 27, 1975), but these are almost all bogus. Regardless of his surname, only the eldest son of the eldest son of families who actually bore arms is entitled to a shield. In Genealogist J. Charles Thompson's words: "You have no more business using another man's arms than you would have using his toothbrush...
...attention were diverted to the swine flu program. In addition, many people have justifiably grown more skeptical of the wisdom of the vaccine establishment. If this skepticism leads them to shun all vaccines, the swine flu disaster will have been far more tragic than laughable.CrimsonLaura J. LevineSwine flu Shots: Bogus or Legitimate...