Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave on my vacation. I said: "Although I'll be off for a couple of weeks, part of me will remain here . . . my ulcers, my headaches, etc. NBC has been very generous in giving me time off during the year. Of course, it pays to have a good lawyer . . . you've heard of mine, 'Tony' [not Louie] the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." This was not said "half-facetiously." It was obvious farce, having no relationship to any person...
Though many a U.S. publisher would have mortgaged his mother to buy Svetlana Allilueva Stalina's memoirs, Manhattan's genteel Harper & Row won the prize without even trying. Svetlana's lawyer, Edward S. Greenbaum, simply phoned his old friend Cass Canfield, Harper's chairman. The motive, though, was something more than friendship. What helps Harper to beat all competition for big books by big names is a secret weapon named Evan Welling Thomas 2nd-the amiably persistent editor who has polished more books by important public figures than anyone else in publishing...
...ground floor is given over to liquor or grocery stores. But block after block is lined with two and three-family brownstones--housing which was, and in many cases still is, very fine indeed. That's what makes residents and planners sure that rehabilitation programs can work. Enthuses one lawyer who lives in the area, "Man, there are some beautiful homes here...
Part of this was undoubtedly due to the fact that Conyers is one of the few Negroes in high political office who does not dress like a Wall St. lawyer -- he is a Negro politician, not a successful politician from an area where it is advantageous to be a Negro. More important, he came to Harvard's Negroes to listen first and talk later. As one member of AAAAS remarked, "He's an unassuming, very approachable guy, easy in conversation, and really concerned. He sees politics as affecting the daily life of the people -- not as an end in itself...
...plain-clothes Cambridge detective entered the store on April 13, Levy said, and priced several second-hand items -- but left without making a purchase. "They don't have a case," he said. "My lawyer says they've got to have evidence that we actually sold second-hand clothing before they can bring charges...