Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burly-looking Actor Brian Donlevy's exwife, Marjorie, went to court to get his divorce from her set aside, and also to get a better property settlement this time, and $50,000 for her lawyer. One of her complaints was that Donlevy (now appearing in The Trouble with Women) had informed her "he had no energy for anything but his career...
...former LIFE science editors, Gerard Piel, 32, and Dennis Flanagan, 28, bought the magazine from Patent Lawyer Orson Munn, whose family had owned it for 101 years. For an undisclosed sum, they got the magazine's typewriters, circulation, Manhattan office space and paper. Editor Piel and Managing Editor Flanagan hope to hold the old readers, and get new ones, by effecting a change that "will be as great as the change from the old Life to the new LIFE...
...Cats. The defense, quite naturally, did not take kindly to the ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...
...Negro children could attend any diocesan school within their parishes. More than 700 white Catholic parents banded together to protest the seating of Negroes next to their children. They knocked at the Archbishop's door; he would not see them. They threatened court action; they would hire a lawyer and ask for an injunction against the Archbishop...
Then American Criminal Investigation agents, tracking down a dozen-odd new U.S. automobiles stolen within recent weeks, became interested. Last week Atanasoff and salesmen were resting from their labors in the Ringstrasse jail. Said Theodore Atanasoff: "I'm just a poor non-Communist lawyer. I've an old mother and father dependent on me. I still don't see how the American military court has jurisdiction, as all the transactions were carried on in the Soviet zone...