Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back (Universal-International). Rock Hudson is a low-principled adman who has "sown so many wild oats he can qualify for a farm loan." Doris Day is a high-powered adwoman who never gets behind in her work. They both go after the same account. Doris concentrates on the client's business; Rock pays attention to his pleasure, and he gets the account. Furious, Doris vows to steal an account from Rock-the Vip account. What she doesn't know: there is no such product as Vip. Rock made it up to please a chorus girl (Edie Adams...
...jury panel said they would serve only "under constraint"-reportedly they had received threatening S.A.O. letters.The judge fined them $10 each and postponed the trial. In Paris, the Societé Parisienne de Surveillance, largest of France's private detective agencies, was turning away business, told a prospective client who had been frightened by an S.A.O. threat: "We are up to our eyes in work. We may be able to provide you with a bodyguard in a few weeks' time, but even that is doubtful." The 20,000 men of the Paris police work equally hard, although they have...
...earlier visit his calls had swamped their switchboard. To impress visitors, he shamelessly buzzes his secretary with orders to "Get me Dore," or "Get me Cole." Starting a typical deal, he will call up 20th Century-Fox and tell them he is asking $200,000 for a client's new novel, think it over. Then he calls Paramount and tells them that Fox is considering...
...gets her loot. Conversely, a demand for high alimony suggests that she has no immediate marriage prospects. Like the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Nizer also favors waving a manila envelope full of "documents" to discomfort witnesses during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand at the far end of the jury box so that the jurymen can focus their attention on the witness without having their attention distracted or their view obstructed by counsel. But in cross-examination of a hostile witness, the lawyer will move close...
Giesler's client Robert Mitchum, ar rested for smoking marijuana, also went to jail. Although Giesler was fairly sure that Mitchum had been framed, he counseled against a not-guilty plea in order to avoid the added publicity of a drawn-out jury trial. "My handling of the Mitchum and Wanger cases saved the motion-picture industry much grief," Giesler said much later in his as-told-to book with Saturday Evening Post Writer Pete Martin, "but they didn't appreciate it then. They don't appreciate it now. It has always been the industry...