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Branzburg vs. Hayes (1972). A reporter has no right to withhold information about his sources from a grand jury in a criminal investigation. The court was unmoved by the contention that confidential sources will dry up if reporters can be compelled to reveal them...
Hutchinson vs. Proxmire and Wolston vs. Reader's Digest Association (1979), Time Inc. vs. Firestone (1976). A scientist whose publicly funded research had been ridiculed as wasteful by a U.S. Senator, a former Government translator who had been cited for contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Soviet espionage, and a prominent Florida socialite embroiled in a highly publicized divorce were all held not to be "public figures" as libel plaintiffs. The court ruled that someone must "thrust" himself into a prominent public controversy in order to become a public figure. In effect, these decisions made...
...Savoy had been divided into twin movie theaters by a concrete wall. Caldwell knocked down the wall and made the hall presentable enough for a spring season, but she will need about $5 million to renovate the theater. The stage, only 26 ft. deep, is not large enough for grand opera. Since the stage was originally built 6 ft. below street level, expansion to 65 ft. will require excavating the alley behind...
Caldwell is not the only Bostonian with a backbreaking challenge. Henry Sears Lodge, son of Henry Cabot Lodge, is battling over the Boston Music Hall, another grand old theater complete with marble doorways, gold-plated chandeliers and four tiers of promenades. Leased to Sack Theatres in 1962, the 4,200-seat Music Hall has been doubling as a movie palace and as a home for the Boston Ballet. Last summer, when a touring company of Broadway's Man of La Mancha unexpectedly sold out for twelve weeks, Sack President A. Alan Friedberg stepped up his efforts to renew...
...results of his campaign are impressive. Hundreds of companies, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the St. Louis Symphony, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Ballet, have had increases of 100% or more since Newman started advising them. The Louisville Ballet has already sold out the up coming fall season with 7,000 subscribers and 2,000 more on a waiting list. Says General Manager Michael Durham: "His book is our bible...