Word: garrett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delivers its message by telephone, and rings in some crude but effective suspense from the mischief wrought by two nubile teen-agers (Movie Newcomers Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane). With Mom and Dad away on an overnight trip, Andi invites Sarah out to her remote country mansion to help baby-sit. Crank calls are the girls' favorite diversion. The usual ploy: "I saw what you did and I know who you are." It is a dubious icebreaker at best, but downright troublesome when addressed to an unstable suburbanite (John Ireland) who that very evening has carved up his wife...
...HOPE, PA., Bucks County Playhouse: Dick Shawn and Betty Garrett in Murray Schisgal's upside-down comedies The Tiger and The Typists...
...back his charges, Garrett presented no documents, no specific evidence, only himself on the stand. Telephone Company Defense Attorney Kenneth Wright could only argue from documents that Garrett had at certain times failed to pay his bills and that the company had promptly corrected service interruptions when they occurred. After seven hours of deliberation, the jury last week voted 10 to 2 for Garrett, awarded him a stunning $1,500,000 for punitive damages plus $1 for actual damages...
Those Units. The telephone company, said Wright afterward, "in effect was put in a position of disproving a negative." It naturally plans to appeal. Cried Garrett, raising his hands to the heavens, "Where can any of us find the burden of our proof? It's all buried somewhere in some tight steel vault." He explained darkly: "We never know what we're being charged for on those bills-all those message units. How do I know how many message units I've used? What is a message unit anyway? Who can evaluate the damages of each call...
...then there was that $1,500,000 judgment. "It's just one of those flukes in the practice of law," said Attorney Wright, a little bit dazed. Chuckled Attorney Garrett, as he strode off arm in arm with his client: "Well, you win a few, lose...