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...Belli any slouch at dramatizing psychological injuries. In one case that has become a legal classic, Belli represented a California fireman who became psychotic after he was injured when a truck rammed the fire engine he was riding. To re-create the exact details for the jury, Belli used an enormous aerial photo of the intersection where the collision occurred. He questioned a parade of 29 witnesses, spotting each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other...
There were no injuries and no apparent damage; numerous fireman, spectators, and reporters went home disappointed...
Trackside Blur. Two hours before dawn, as the Royal Mail hurtled through sleeping Buckinghamshire, Engineer Jack Mills, 57, saw a red signal at Sears Crossing. Mills halted the train and Fireman David Whitby, 26, swung down from the cab, went to the track-side telephone to find out what was wrong. He saw that the wires were cut and, turning, spotted a man between the second and third coaches. "What's up, mate?" asked Whitby, and the next moment he was grabbed from behind, warned, "If you shout, I'll kill...
Breedlove paid for his dream too. In stead of going to college, he took a variety of odd jobs (welder, fireman, sports car salesman) that allowed him free time to build fast cars and race them. His first wife divorced him. In 1959 he set to work on Spirit in earnest. Before he was through, he quit his job, exhausted his unemployment compensation, was scrimping by on the earnings of his second wife, a waitress in a drive-in (and a car buff like himself). "Four years," he said last week. "Four years of seven days a week, 18 hours...
Meanwhile, Fireman Glass collected $197.97 for his first twelve days in the diesel cab. He paid his rent, bought a new watch for his wife, new shoes for himself. He has already experienced one brief layoff in his short railroad career, but it did not bother him. "That's railroadin', I guess," he says...