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...answer was simple enough. Satirizing the pop politics of California's Governor Jerry Brown, Trudeau had turned his biting pen on a labor lawyer and Brown contributor, Sidney Korshak, describing him with several harsh characterizations, including "known organized crime figure." While Korshak is no stranger to criminal investigators, the newspapers felt, as the Times put it, that the cartoons were "unfair, irresponsible and unsubstantiated." Callers accused the papers of trying to protect Brown. Said the Guv: "I think it is false and libelous, but I'm flattered by the attention...
...packed it had to close its gates to visitors. In California, Disneyland was also doing record business. As of this week Broadway theater ticket sales are running $6 million ahead of last year's level. Sales of costly Steinway pianos have hit a historic high C. At Stanley Korshak Inc., one of Chicago's most expensive dress shops, Vice President Stanley Korshak Jr. reports that business has been running 20% ahead of last year. "We're spending it while we have it," he says, adding: "When faced with uncertainty, we are liable to do strange things." Korshak...
...cold turkey: "Look, this isn't fun and games. We have a multimillion-dollar business to run, and we're not laughing all the way to the bank. Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence." Bloomingdale's, obviously, is leaning Fairchild's way; so, for example, are Stanley Korshak in Chicago, Sakowitz in Houston, Erlebacher in Washington. The midi predominates in high-fashion stores, but there are alternatives: pantsuits particularly, plus a few minis...
Skimminq. In his dealings with the Parvin/Dohrmann Co., Voloshen has indirectly connected the Speaker's office to some unsavory individuals-though McCormack himself may never have heard of them. Chief of these are Sidney R. Korshak, a Los Angeles attorney and intimate of Chicago gangsters, and Edward Torres, a mob-affiliated gambler who was involved with illegally skimming gambling proceeds in Las Vegas. Both are members of a group that controls the company...