Word: harper
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...tone of His Honor's 19-page ruling was almost as undignified as the sex-centered Palm Beach divorce trial over which he presided. After listening for 18 days to conflicting tales of adultery, lesbian trysts, incest and drug use, Florida Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper, 55, ruled on the demands by Roxanne Pulitzer, 31, that her husband Peter Pulitzer, 52, pay her a reported $144,000 a year in alimony and child support, give her their $1.5 million estate and custody of their five-year-old twins, Mack and Zack. Terming the demands exorbitant, Harper said they reminded...
...Judge Harper decided that the latter should go to Roxanne, who was unemployed and living in a mobile home before she married Pulitzer, grandson of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, seven years ago. He ruled that she had "continuously engaged in adultery and other gross marital misconduct." Indeed, testimony indicated that she had slept with a Palm Beach real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver and Jacquie Kimberly, beautiful wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly. The judge felt sorry for Pulitzer, he wrote, when he saw "the embarrassment, painful hurt and frustrating concern exuding from his doleful...
...more cause for concern now. Harper awarded her only $2,000 a month for two years, a $7,000 interest in the Pulitzer yacht, a black Porsche, $60,000 worth of jewelry and $102,000 to pay her lawyer, who was asking $300,000. Pulitzer can keep his fortune, placed by the judge at $12.5 million, and take custody of the twins. After hearing the ruling, Roxanne took to her bed in tears...
...with the biography because Mailer's own writing was always reflecting the character of the country. Working for numerous magazines, he covered John F. Kennedy '40 and the space program, the 1968 and 1972 Presidential conventions. His response to his feminist detractors, The Prisoner of Sex, originally appeared in Harper's magazine. As Mills says of his Armies of the Night, Mailer's report of the march on the Pentagon...
...Vietnam war, the American presidency, the beatnik generation and the boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, Mailer helped usher in a new writing style, the New Journalism, in which the reporter becomes an active participant in the story. According to Willie Morris, an editor of Harper's in 1968, Mailer was "creating the language" by his new use of words, sentences, and obscenities...