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...lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from department stores and discounters...
...GOODBYE GIRL Directed by Herbert Ross Screenplay by Neil Simon...
...follow-up story, Lando began checking into Herbert's career and his charges against the Army, and concluded that the colonel was indeed too good to be true. In a half-hour 60 Minutes segment in 1973, Lando and Correspondent Mike Wallace challenged a number of Herbert's allegations, and interviewed fellow officers unable to substantiate them Herbert sued Lando, Wallace and CBS for libel, demanding that Lando answer questions about his state of mind when he prepared the program. Lando balked, and in January a judge ordered him to comply...
...Herbert's lawyers say they will appeal to the Supreme Court. Unless the ruling is reversed, it could be used by journalists in their attempts to keep a plaintiff from prying into their thoughts during the preparation of a disputed article or broadcast. In a dissent, Judge Thomas Meskill called Herbert's questions legitimate because in order to win a libel case, a public figure like Herbert must prove that a journalist had serious doubts about the accuracy of his report, but published it anyway...
...working as a hospital psychologist in an undisclosed Western city, Herbert may still win his four-year-old libel suit if he can prove in some other way that CBS's allegations against him were false, damaging and recklessly made. Whatever the outcome, both sides would feel better if the Supreme Court some day settled the question of whether a journalist can be forced to divulge his thoughts and opinions. "As long as the question is open," says Lando, "any time a reporter sits down to discuss something with his editor, he'll keep in the back...