Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crossing razor-edged affidavits in a Manhattan court. Heiress Gloria ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Vanderbilt Stokowski Lumet, 35, joined battle with her ex-husband, white-maned Leopold Stokowski, over custody arrangements for their two sons, Stan. 9, and Christopher, 7. Insisting that Stokowski is really 85 (72, he claims) and "seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly...
...from compulsory collective bargaining, and the struck six stuck to their legal guns. The Greater New York Hospital Association rejected Mayor Robert F. Wagner's suggestion that both sides submit their case to an impartial fact-finding commission. On strike's eve, the six hospitals got court orders to head it off, but the orders were ineffective because Local President Leon J. Davis, once an apostle of left-wing causes, went into hiding to avoid service...
...week's end the union stood fast in its demand for recognition, while the hospitals were equally firm in rejecting it. As State Supreme Court Justice George Tilzer wrestled with motions and counter-motions on the injunction suits, he felt that both sides had forgotten that the patients' welfare should be their first concern, asked exasperatedly: "Has reason been abandoned by all you people?" The question was rhetorical...
...broad, with good reason, demands triple damages-and wins them from a local court. But Kovacs only leers happily around his cigar, and his lawyers inform her lawyer (Jack Lemmon): "We have the entire appellate structure of the State of Maine before us." Deciding that two can play dirty pool, the heroine slaps a writ of execution on the villain, "attaches" the next train that happens to come through town, parks it on a spur track and challenges the brute to top that. He does. He demands rent for the spur track - $1 a foot...
...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...