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...hungry he was and Girl stood aside while the little mongrel ate from hers. He was citybred like his dad and Sam, who had been born poor in South Philadelphia or someplace with no background of his own, had given his dog the classiest of names: ALFRED WARBURG FRICK BOLLO III, a heavy weight for such a little rattle-rear to carry around...
...gives the money? Nixon's contributors include the Reader's Digest's DeWitt Wallace, Chicago Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone, Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick, and 100,000 donors who sent in contributions by mail. Humphrey's finances are run by Stockbroker John L. Loeb, Sidney J. Weinberg and ex-Commerce Secretary John Connor. To raise his funds, McCarthy has Howard Stein of the Dreyfus Fund, his kinderklatsch and a pride of beautiful people. Kennedy's finances come mostly from the family coffers...
Ever since Pittsburgh Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick left his strong-willed daughter a fortune that has grown to at least $38 million in five decades, Helen Clay Frick has spent her life idealizing his "Christian" memory and devoting his cash to such cultural works as Manhattan's Frick art museum. Thus in 1964, Miss Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil...
Calling Stevens a liar, Miss Frick sought to enjoin further sale and publication of the book-an effort that most lawyers viewed as doomed. After all, historians have freely depicted dead persons as they pleased throughout U.S. history. All the same, Miss Frick sued under a 1944 Pennsylvania precedent defining a libel as a publication "tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive." Though rare, statutes in several states make defamation of the dead a crime. The possibilities of a Frick victory alarmed historians across the country...
Last week those fears were put to rest by Cumberland County Judge Clinton R. Weidner, who ruled not only that Stevens' book is accurate and protected as free speech-but also that Stevens was actually too polite to Tycoon Frick. If his daughter were upheld, said Judge Weidner, "our bookshelves would be either empty or contain books written only by relatives of the subject." He added: "Miss Frick might as well try to enjoin publication and distribution of the Holy Bible because, being a descendant of Eve, she does not believe that Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit...