Word: j
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...Supreme Court reversed the ruling, declaring that the debtor should have raised his constitutional claim in the state court. Expanding the doctrine known as "abstention," the court declared that state contempt proceedings, like criminal prosecutions, should be free from federal court interference except in extraordinary circumstances. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. dissented vociferously, saying the court had "embarked on the dangerous course" of condoning widespread violations of civil liberties...
...better to err on the side of free speech." So saying, Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals snatched back $125,002 that Author A.E. Hotchner thought he had won last year in a libel suit. Hotchner, a longtime friend of Ernest Hemingway and writer of the memoir Papa Hemingway, had successfully sued Doubleday & Co. for publishing Spanish Author José Luis Castillo-Puche's opinion in yet another Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed...
Garson Kanin, 65, playwright, Hollywood and Broadway director, has a new credit. His latest novel consists of 27 years' worth of work-journal entries. The notes are on a fictive California stage actor named John J. Tumulty, dead ten years when the research starts in 1940. The diarist (coyly named Garson Kanin) tries to create a screenplay from the biographical data. But as Kanin turns and sifts his evidence, mysteries rise from "facts." Conflicting testimony comes from people who knew Tumulty (who bears a resemblance to John Barrymore), among them B.D. (Big Director), the actor's adopted...
Fewer people applied to other major graduate schools throughtout the country as well. Robert J. Bunselmeyer, assistant dean of the Yale GSAS, said yesterday that graduate school applications at Yale declined ten per cent this year...
...president of Home Health Inc., a California health care company that HEW pays through the Medicare program. In early January, the Social Security Administration notified HEW's office of investigations that there might be fraud involved in the department's payments to Souza's companies. Enter John J. Walsh, director of HEW's office of investigations...