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...Attorney General John Mitchell argues that without obtaining a court order he can authorize wiretaps on "dangerous" domestic groups; he also claims that the evidence thus obtained can be used in court. "The contention of the Attorney General is in error," ruled U.S. District Judge Damon Keith in Detroit last week. "Such power held by one individual was never contemplated by the framers of our Constitution and cannot be tolerated today." It was a rare victory for William Kunstler, who represents three White Panthers accused of conspiracy to bomb a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich. In ruling the wiretap...
Mullin resents a lot. He has applied his pet epithet, "no-good sonofabitch," loudly and frequently to such diverse types as Damon Runyon and Franklin Roosevelt, as well as virtually every employer he ever left. His opinion of all politicians is so low that he could not even bring himself to do cartoons of them. Mullin isn't "even sure that Lincoln was a good man," and thinks Andrew Jackson "practiced genocide against the Seminoles at least as bad as Hitler against the Jews." As for the Kennedys, "you couldn't print what I think of them...
...said Gypsy. By the time she was 17, she was a headliner for Billy Minsky, and went on to display her 5-ft. 9½-in. figure in a succession of top billings: Ziegfeld's Follies, George White's Scandals, Billy Rose's Casino de Paree. Damon Runyon admired her and Walter Winchell spotlighted her in his column. After seeing her gracefully dispense with her clothing, Jean Cocteau exclaimed "How vital!" She "retired" in 1937 to become an author (The G-String Murders, Gypsy) and sometime actress (You Can't Have Everything), but continued to make...
Lyons has been legging it for 35 years. He broke in during the gossip column's heyday: among New York's reigning tyrants were Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Mark Hellinger, Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol, John Chapman. "I was at the bottom of the pile," says Lyons, "so I went out and started digging up my own news." He has seen the name-dropping column go through a steady decline, but the rise of Suzy Knickerbocker is a sign that people still long for columns that celebrate celebrity. There will always be newspaper readers, says Lyons, "whose appetites...
Dapper of dress, genial of manner, loud of voice, Dawson, 48, seems to have patterned his career on some undiscovered Damon Runyon manuscript...