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Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison, his two sisters and three other associates, all under a Los Angeles indictment on counts of criminal libel, distributing lewd and obscene material and disseminating illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation, walked into the Manhattan D.A.'s office one day last week and voluntarily surrendered. But it was only a technical surrender. As California's Governor Goodwin Knight signed extradition papers for the lot and fired them off to New York, Harrison & Co. said they would oppose extradition, retorted with a $2,047,125 suit against California's Attorney General...
...operation is not performed." testified Dr. Warren Guild, "it is my opinion that Leon Masden will die. It is difficult to say when." Urologist J. Hartwell Harrison admitted that as a result of the operation. Leonard would be "like an automobile without a spare tire" if he later suffered an infection or traumatic injury of his one good kidney. Leonard readily volunteered to undergo this risk. Added Psychiatrist Christopher Standish: "If this operation is not performed. Leonard will suffer a severe emotional jolt. He will realize that it had been within his power to save his brother's life...
...Geochemist Harrison Brown left for Caltech. Later, Economist Jacob Marschak went to Yale; Dean John Jeuck of the business school settled for a professorship at the Harvard business school. Chemist Willard Libby joined the AEC, and Theologian Amos Wilder is now on the faculty of Harvard's revived Divinity School. Last week Chicago lost one of the biggest names of all: Social Scientist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman, 47, whose colleagues have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return...
...Angeles County grand jury last week landed the first solid blow on the peeping eye of Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison. Harrison, already beset by $28.5 million in libel suits, and ten confederates were indicted on charges of conspiracy to publish criminal libel, to distribute lewd and obscene material and to disseminate illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation. As California Assistant Attorney General Clarence Linn said, perhaps optimistically: "In my opinion, Confidential is finished...
...Married. Harrison Freeman ("Doc") Matthews. 57, U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands (awaiting reassignment in June), one of the U.S.'s four original "five-star diplomats"* and a 33-year career veteran; and Helen J. Skouland, 58. career member of the Foreign Service; both for the second time; in Zurich...