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...Here's Johnny" [April 28], you quote me as referring on the air half-facetiously to my attorney, Arnold Grant, as "Louie the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." You are wrong, and you owe an apology to one of the most respected attorneys in the profession. I have never mentioned Arnold Grant by name, or referred to him indirectly, on my program...
...tapes during the strike, Carson's chief concern was his own future. Some time earlier, he had hired Show Biz Attorney Arnold Grant, to whom he referred on the air half-facetiously as "Louie the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." In the demand for a new contract, Grant and Lawyer Louis Nizer reportedly asked for a base salary jump from $15,000 to $30,000 a week, plus a hefty cut of the Tonight earnings, which run to about $20 million in advertising billings a year. Sure enough, Carson...
...through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have disappeared and are believed to be either dead or toiling in remote labor camps. Mao's China...
...Paris in 1958 and two years later, with a handful of other young Parisian artists, formed the highly experimental Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel. One of the group's "researches" consisted of passing out Le Fare's cheating cheaters, along with chairs and shoes set on kangaroo springs, to passers-by on the St. Germain and Montparnasse boulevards. The man in the street loved them, though many were a trifle mystified by an accompanying questionnaire that asked, among other things: "This demonstration seems to you a) useful, b) stupid, c) amusing, d) pretentious...
According to Japanese press reports from the Chinese capital, he cited a raft of Red Guard excesses. "You often try the leaders at kangaroo courts," he said. "On the death of Chang Lin-chih, minister for the coal industry, my mind is not at rest. He suddenly died-after a trial that lasted 40 days." Chou chewed out the Guards for other, less fatal outrages-against the minister for railroads, the minister for agricultural land reclamation and the minister for commerce, one Yao Yilin. "I have had to order him to take a rest," said Chou. "I understand you have...