Word: garretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white-haired man shuffled into Los Angeles superior court. His pants cuffs spilled two inches over his shoes. A wide necktie flopped across his rumpled blue shirt, his collar tabs curled like potato chips. He was Arthur Garrett, 63, lawyer for the plaintiff-who also happened to be Arthur Garrett...
...defendant was the one corporate entity that many Americans would give their digit-dial Princesses to see haled into court: the telephone company. On behalf of Client Garrett, Attorney Garrett was suing the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. The specifics were a little vague, but they amounted to a charge of continued harassment over a period of four years. Attorney Garrett had only one witness-himself...
...thing, the company billed him for two trunk lines when he only wanted one. In 1961, when he made an abortive campaign for city attorney, most of his speeches were directed at the phone company, which, he charged, "gives us a pushing around." At that time, Garrett promised that if elected, he would see to it that the phone rates were reduced. But Garrett quit the campaign because he was getting no support...
...paper work in his den at home. His first chore at the hospital starts at 7 a.m., when he checks three adjoining operating rooms to make sure they have all been set up in accordance with orders worked out with his two chief assistants, surgeons Dr. H. Edward Garrett, 38, and Dr. Jimmy Frank Howell, 32. A typical day's schedule reads...
Surgery begins at 7:30, and in what the Houston virtuosos have come to regard as routine cases, operations may get under way in the three rooms at once, with Drs. DeBakey, Garrett and Howell each taking charge in one. If a case is expected to be of more than average difficulty, DeBakey will have Garrett or Howell as his chief assistant, facing him across the operating table...