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...Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
Founded in the gold-rush days of 1849, the California court seemed destined to become the nation's zaniest tribunal. Justice David C. Terry (1855-59), for example, was a ferocious Mississippian who began honing his bowie knife on assorted victims as a 13-year-old soldier in the Texas War of Independence. After getting elected to the California court on the Know-Nothing ticket, Terry was jailed and convicted for stabbing a San Francisco vigilante. Not only was Terry freed, he became chief justice in 1857 and promptly killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in California...
...came before Supreme Court Justice Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah spent the next 45 years in an insane asylum...
...this activity continues," said Monte Gordon, research vice president of Bache & Co., "we will go through 1000 like a hot knife through butter." Gordon's exuberant prediction was based on a significant shift in market activity. The New York Stock Exchange in 1965 traded a record 1.6 billion shares, and the most active part of it was in speculative stocks. Harris, Upham & Co. keeps an informal kind of risky-stock Dow-Jones of its own. Says Senior Vice President Ralph A. Rotnem, "According to our figures, this is the most speculative market since 1959." Harris, Upham's speculative...
Brechtian theory is all the rage with your smart act these days, and it is reliably reported that one cannot so much as whistle a few bars of "Mack the Knife" in the Square without some pomaded hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that...