Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spread-eagled his arms and gloated: "Now I can say I kissed the Governor of California." He was once married to Margaret Leighton (they played opposite each other in As You Like It). Now Harvey lives in the $1,000,000 Beverly Hills hut of blonde and sumptuous Joan Cohn, 42-year-old widow of Harry Cohn, the onetime king of Columbia Pictures. Inside this off-white, Louis XV lair, Harvey whispers apologetically to visitors, "This isn't really my taste. It isn't really...
...Joan Cohn calls him "the boy prince." As a symbol of devotion, she once gave him a lavender Rolls-Royce with his initials on it. Harvey is among the financial backers of a small restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Bistro, and together they hold court there. Harvey likes to sit facing the walls-they are all made of mirrors. Thus his eyes, narrow as oriental slits, can see everybody who's there, including himself, and he can smooth his light brown hair without going into Joan's purse for a compact...
...falls behind in reading, he gets "dumber and dumber" in school. At Manhattan's High School of Commerce, for example, only one-fifth of this fall's entering tenth-graders read at ninth-grade level or above. "We do our best for our students," says Principal Murray Cohn, "but they just can't keep...
...feeling is so strong, claimed Cohn, that Robert Morgenthau hired "an international bounty hunter" to go out and "get something on Roy Cohn." Cohn accused Morgenthau of leaking stories about him to the press, of harassing him through the Internal Revenue Service, of spreading word through Federal Detention Headquarters that any prisoner willing to implicate Cohn might get a break, and of offering immunity to "gangsters and racketeers in order to get perjured evidence against me." And he referred to "a prominent case recently concluded" in which Morgenthau "obtained the sentencing of all the defendants except those from whom...
...Fight to Come. So blatant is this vendetta, declared Cohn, that a jury trial in a federal court would really not suffice for the presentation of Cohn's evidence. He would much prefer a public investigation by a bar association or the Senate Judiciary Committee. In any case, he is prepared to battle all the way. He should, for if he is found guilty of all the charges against him, he could get $36,000 in fines and 40 years in prison...