Word: cochran
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...would have said it was Johnnie Cochran, strictly on results. I don't know who's going to follow in his footsteps...
DIED. SIMON WARONKER, 90, founder of successful indie-pop label Liberty Records, home in the '50s and '60s to Eddie Cochran (Summertime Blues), Julie London (Cry Me a River) and Alvin and the Chipmunks; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Alvin, Simon and Theodore--the animated rodents whose 1958 novelty Chipmunk Song was a No. 1 single that sold 4 million copies--were named for Waronker and two Liberty colleagues...
...Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee hearings can listen stonily to most congressional critics, recently admonished Humphrey, "Come off it, Senator.") As NBC Correspondent John Cochran explained on Today (but had not made clear in his profile), he had confined his reporting to people who had actually met Gorbachev. His profile was thus unrounded, not from liberal bias but from something more endemic to television, a visual preference for personalities rather than analysis...
DIED. JOHNNIE COCHRAN, 67, savvy, media-friendly attorney renowned for his resplendent dress and seemingly effortless charm with juries; of an inoperable brain tumor diagnosed in 2003; at his home in Los Angeles. Born in Shreveport, La., a great-grandson of slaves, Cochran won recognition after suing police departments for abuse in the 1960s and proudly displayed copies of his plaintiffs' multimillion-dollar checks in his office. His fame crested in 1995 after his successful defense of O.J. Simpson, against seemingly overwhelming evidence, of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. Cochran's signature line, a reference...
...were more interested in the Vietnam War and bigger issues than the final clubs,” Cochran says...