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...partner of one of Manhattan's top corporate-law firms, a sedate Harvard Law grad ('27) who spent the rackety '30s as a public prosecutor, won convictions in 97.8% of his cases the first year, sent up Gangster Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Communist Earl Browder and assorted dope pushers, counterfeiters and post-Prohibition bootleggers, even boarded the Normandie to confiscate Marlene Dietrich's jewels (as collateral against back income tax claims) before she sailed, and extracted fines from Jack Benny and George Burns for purchasing items that had been smuggled through customs; of cancer; in London...
...English courses, does not admit to any big message. "We are just creating doubts and raising questions," he explains. Garfunkel, a Columbia University graduate student who sports a Dr. Zorba shock of electrified hair, says: "Pop music is the most vibrant force in music today. It's like dope-so heady, so alive...
...evidence that can demolish the unwary. Among many examples was the recent Candy Mossier murder case: a Texas convict testified that Candy had given him $7,000 to kill her husband-whereupon Defense Lawyer Percy Foreman dramatically produced the man's wife to swear that he was a dope addict and a compulsive liar...
...father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships with the butcher for an extra piece of pork chop for the kids." The neighborhood hero is the man who betters...
Dunmeyer's mother, he related, was a prostitute, but in her own eyes "she was just a woman that had to learn to live by her wits." As a child, said Dunmeyer, he saw slumlords, dope peddlers and graft-taking cops enrich themselves by "flimflamming somebody"-which encouraged him to do likewise. "If you can't get downtown to take the big stack," he said, "you took the little stack uptown from the little guy who lived right around you." Added Dunmeyer: "You are in jail in the street or behind bars...