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...brutally beating his wife," and had allegedly told police, "You've got me for murder. I don't desire to tell you anything." The court found no prejudice, and it upheld Van Duyne's conviction. But Judge John J. Francis took the opportunity to issue a dictum banning all potentially prejudicial statements by police, prosecutors and defense lawyers throughout New Jersey...
Besides being the largest single owner of Du Pont and one of the richest men in America, Copeland is also a chemist and a financial expert who believes in Andrew Carnegie's dictum: "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch them." Fiercely loyal to the closely woven clan and its company, Copeland believes, in the best big-business tradition, that Du Pont has a duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others...
...another grand jury, the state has continued fighting to uphold his original conviction. Last week the state attorney general lost his last round when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the appellate court decision. In effect, the Supreme Court thus stood by Justice Stanley Reed's 1950 dictum: "An accused is entitled to have charges against him considered by a jury in the selection of which there has been neither inclusion nor exclusion because of race...
Where Love Has Gone. "Somewhere along the line the world has lost all its standards and all its taste," snaps Bette Davis. But don't let her dictum fool you. Miss Davis is merely throwing in the opening ball for a few innings of big league smut scraped together from the bestselling novel by Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers...
Last week's jury, apparently convinced that the Times had acted without malice, awarded Bull Connor nothing in punitive damages. But despite the Supreme Court dictum that, short of malice, just about anything goes in criticism of public officials, the jury awarded Connor $40,000 compensatory damages for any injury done his reputation. Before he collects Connor may have to wait for a Supreme Court ruling...