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Dershowitz was in New York representing Edmund A. Rosner, who was seeking a new trial on a 1972 conviction for bribing a policeman. The police officer--whose testimony provided the prosecution with the substance of its case against Rosner--later admitted he perjured himself while first giving his damaging testimony...
...Robert Silvers, the editor of the New York Review of Books, the magazine that the study indicates is favored by intellectuals who want to reach other intellectuals. Silvers is an able editor but an infrequent writer; it must be assumed that his ranking at the top, along with Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling and Norman Mailer,* is due to a power not unlike that of the maitre d' of an exclusive restaurant...
Seeking a new political start, Nixon challenged the popular Edmund ("Pat") Brown for the governorship of California in 1962, but was beaten by 300,000 votes (out of 5,850,000). Fatigued and haggard, Nixon mounted a podium at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel the following morning and, to the astonishment of the assembled newsmen, lashed out angrily at them. "Just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference...
Legal Fee. In a related action last week, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. was fined a maximum $35,000 in federal court in Washington after pleading guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to Democratic and Republican candidates in 1968, 1970 and 1972, including Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, South Dakota Senator James Abourezk and Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills...
...Ellery Queen, it is the very inimitability of the master-hardly a Holmesian exists who has not mentally attempted to compose a further adventure of the world's first consulting detective. To Critic Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London lodgings and lonely country estates." Meyer views the basis of Holmes' immortality simply as the story of a friendship: the intellectual rationalist and his immortal physician-confidant, a man of infinite joust, the stolid, substantial, late great doctor... Sigmund Freud...