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...mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen...
Bickel argued and won the Pentagon papers case, which resulted in the landmark decision on secrets and leaks. The Supreme Court decided, in Bickel's words, that "if a newspaper had got hold of those documents without itself participating in a theft of them, although somebody else might to its knowledge have stolen them, it could have published them with impunity." This makes newspapers sound uncomfortably like criminal fences, though the stolen property is not jewels but information...
...plagued by a spirit that his problem is religious guilt and that he should "lay some broads." "That 'll do the trick," he counsels. Martin tells of another psychiatrist who during an actual exorcism tries to question the possessed despite the objections of the priest. "This may be a landmark case of multiple personality," the psychiatrist says, only to be claimed by the spirit himself...
...Theater where he appeared in Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy. Cobb was acting in Hollywood films when Director Elia Kazan sent him a copy of a new Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, and an offer of the starring role. He accepted and in 1949 gave a landmark performance. After a decade of moviemaking and four years as Judge Garth in TV's The Virginian, Cobb in 1968 again scaled theatrical heights as the blind, ravaged monarch in King Lear...
...this time was that the judge at Sheppard's original trial seven years before had failed to insulate the jury from an anti-Sheppard newspaper campaign by changing the venue, sequestering the jurors, or at least ordering them not to read press accounts. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark 8-to-1 decision, agreed with Bailey, then 32, and ordered Sheppard freed or retried. At the new trial in 1966, Bailey easily won an acquittal for Sheppard...