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DIED. Frederick Brisson, 71, theatrical and film producer who oversaw some 20 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955), then turned many of them into successful movies, and who was also responsible for the first appearances on Broadway of Play wrights Peter Shaffer (Five Finger Exercise, 1959) and Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, 1961); of a stroke; in New York City. Brisson was married for 35 years to Actress Rosalind Russell, until her death...
Maria L. St. Brisson Moreno Columbus...
...loss of reputation, mortification and hurt feelings," and offered the case to a judge sitting without jury. Last week U.S. District Judge William W. Schwarzer found the now defunct magazine had shown "reckless disregard" for damaging inaccuracies in the article by Freelancers Richard Carlson and Lance Brisson. He awarded Alioto a judgment of $350,000 plus court costs (estimated at about $50,000). Said Alioto: "How sweet it is." Cowles Communications Inc., which published Look, is now primarily an investment firm headquartered in Daytona Beach, Fla., and all but $25,000 of the judgment liability is covered by the Employers...
Cattle Bin. No one has yet proved that a conspiracy really exists. "The basic problem here is paranoia," insists Lawyer Norman Brisson, whose firm represents one of the young defendants. "I don't believe our kids have ever met a Weatherman." Other citizens have begun to wonder if the letters and explosives may not be just sick pranks. Since one device had "school" written on it, many young people agree with a self-styled radical student: "That was a joke. The school is run like a cattle bin. We've got to change it, and if we have...
Coco also sets some sort of anticipation record, for Brisson has been laboring over this show for the past twelve years. "I'd been fascinated with Chanel since I was ten." Brisson says, "when I was at school in England. I was fascinated by this woman who cut her hair, smoked in public, wore pants." Brisson approached Lerner in 1960, but they did not start work together on Coco until 1965. By that time. Chanel had seen Lerner's My Fair Lady and loved it. "I was convinced that Lerner was incapable of doing anything vulgar," she said...