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Thinking in large, impressive figures, as is his habit, Negligence Lawyer Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the...
By a rare coincidence, the judge happened to be Willis W. Ritter, who normally sits in the federal district court in Salt Lake City. Since that court's docket is relatively uncrowded, Ritter occasionally sits in other districts as a visiting judge. In San Francisco two years before, he...
In Kapell's case, Ritter brooded for two more years, finally decided last June that the Commonwealth Pacific pilot had been guilty of willful misconduct. In a massive opinion mailed to New York from Salt Lake City, the judge ruled that the Australian airline Qantas, which had since largely...
Pianist Entremont seemed to have a talent as impressive as the late William Kapell's-speed, big tone, a sense of soul, flair. Even if he had flubbed a tricky rhythm, nobody would have known it, for Entremont played with a momentum that swept all before him. Few in...
Last week Pianist Kapell. 31. took off in a British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 for the long flight home. Eight thousand miles later, letting down for an instrument landing at San Francisco, the big ship clipped a fog-concealed tree, crashed headlong into the side of a mountain ravine...