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...five reporters to badger jurors in the first days after a trial. Says the New York Post's combative Steve Dunleavy: "I love to get inside a juror's head." Anthea Frankl sat on the White Plains, N.Y., murder trial growing out of the Stouffer's Inn fire that killed 26 business executives. She saw so many newspeople that she began to rate them, from the New York Times ("totally ethical") to a local Westchester County, N.Y., paper that printed a significant error although she had warned them...
...Hinckley juror, her husband complained, "Why should she spend her time so you can make money on her? What's in it for her?" Another motivation for telling their stories is to fight back. When the judge in the Stouffer's Inn case threw out the jury's conviction, the next day's newspapers were filled with disgruntled reactions from jurors defending their verdict...
...their sometimes desperate search for the perfect but inexpensive come-on, both cities are experimenting with different kinds of entertainment, including old-fashioned Broadway shows. A road show of The Pirates of Penzance was a hit at Resorts, and Las Vegas' Desert Inn reported success with touring troupes of A Chorus Line, Annie and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Most of the stars may have priced themselves out of their old homes at the casinos, but Broadway may have found a whole new, high-rolling audience. -By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Phil Hevener/Las Vegas and Jack E. White/Atlantic...
...final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter says, "as if they just bought the entire lobby of the Ramada Inn...
Jordan, then president of the National Urban League, was severely wounded by rifle fire outside the Marriott Inn as he stepped out of an automobile driven by a white woman. FBI agents reportedly have evidence that Franklin had stayed in two nearby motels around the time of the shooting and later tried to sell a .30-06 rifle, the same type of weapon that fired the bullets wounding Jordan. The rifle has not yet been found. Last week's indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Indiana, charges Franklin with violating Jordan's civil rights...