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Some seeming nonessentials, however, seem to remain much in demand. Says Lewis Katcher, a research director at the Sutro & Co. brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports...
Curbing Rancor. Although some of his fellow justices carped about Warren's lack of legal scholarship, he transformed the sometimes fractious atmosphere of the Vinson Court by a mixture of charm, tact and candor. One law clerk, quoted in Leo Katcher's Warren biography, said: "What was lacking was a spirit of 'collegiality.' . . . Warren's job was to try to bring personalities together, not beliefs. He couldn't ask anyone to abandon a deeply held belief, but to accept opposition without rancor...
...spirit, philosophy and thrust have often been credited to Justices Black and Douglas-or to almost anyone but Warren. Little has been said about the Chief Justice's role. Now that Warren, at 76, has begun his 15th term, two new biographies, by former Newspaperman Leo Katcher and Freelance Writer John Weaver, have just been published. Though both are somewhat sprawling and unfocused, they suggest that the Warren court owes much of what it has accomplished to Earl Warren...
Peeled off The Big Bankroll, Leo Katcher's popular biography of Under-worldling Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928). Jo Swerling's script tells the sordid story of a boy who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth and uses it to sup with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally...
...BANKROLL (369 pp.)-Leo Katcher-Harper...