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...fired his lawyer, Frances Kahn, because she was a "prosecution spy" and took over his own defense. The detective who arrested him he called a "sadist." Assistant District Attorney Frank Rogers became the "persecutor." Judge Gellinoff was an "animal." Once, while cross-examining a prosecution psychiatrist, Kayo posed an hour-long hypothetical question. "Now, Doctor," he finally concluded, "assuming everything I said to be true, do you have an opinion as to whether District Attorney Rogers is crazy?" Improper, ruled the court wearily. "Why, Judge?" asked Kayo. "Anybody who would try me on these preposterous charges must be crazy...
...every level, though, his demands on his teammates are exacting. Though he has eased up a bit, for years McDonnell had a habit of telephoning department heads at 2 or 3 a.m. for hour-long talks. His knack for asking the one question that an aide cannot answer is legendary. Characteristically, he summons assistants to meetings at such precise times as 10:22 or 3:53, then keeps them waiting while he wrestles on and on with the previous problem...
...thing a group of about 50 Harvard and Radcliffe students came inside after an hour-long demonstration in the freezing cold and heckled the Sing-Out performers mercilessly. They yelled "Fascist!" and "Heil, Hitler!" and worse, especially during the the closing speech of national program director John Sayre. Sayre, a former Olympic gold medal winner in rowing, was visibly shaken by the harrassment. He called it "the worst, most persistent, and loudest heckling we've ever drawn anywhere in the world." That bothered Heikki...
...Sullivan's place became so jammed that he had to charge admission to keep the crowd down. Next was "Friday's," so called because it opened on Friday and the first customer allegedly came in exclaiming "Thank God, it's Friday." On busy nights, half-block, hour-long queues now form outside this and other favorite rendezvous...
...Liners. Television and cinema have been edging toward this wedding for years. The first step was for Hollywood to take over production of almost all prime-time entertainment; while 84% of nightly TV was done live in 1955, barely 5% of it is now. As hour-long shows came into vogue, film makers learned the knack of the two-part story, which could then be stitched together and peddled in Europe as a Walt Disney or Man from U.N.C.L.E. feature film. At the same time, TV programmers discovered that, say, a ten-year-old Danny Kaye film could outdraw...