Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practices." But Goldfine's son, H. Maxwell Goldfine, talking to a TIME correspondent a few weeks before his father's testimony, had another version of how the hoped-for settlement was sought. He blamed Einiger Mills, Inc., a Goldfine competitor, for prompting FTC complaints. A lawyer named Lester Lazarus, continued "Mack" Goldfine, had done some of the work for Einiger. The Goldfines solved this problem by hiring Lazarus for the Goldfine legal team. The lawyer then went to work on settling the FTC complaint. Lazarus, said young Goldfine, made several trips to Washington, where he entertained FTC people...
Death of a Poet. Author Holmes, a leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond...
Critical Ignition. In Milwaukee, when a court wanted to know why Lester J. Schneider had obtained 15 delays of his trial for arson, Schneider's attorney explained that his client had on separate occasions been hit by a train, operated on for appendicitis, hospitalized also for a kidney ailment, a sprained ankle, and injuries resulting from a fall from the roof of a barn...
...basic facts and figures of Goldfine's cobrful life and complex business dealings were assembled by Boston Lawyer Lawrence Cohen and New York Lawyer Lester Lazarus, both Goldfine regulars. The information was polished in statement form by 1) Boston Lawyer Samuel Sears, dropped in 1954 as counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the Army-McCarthy fracas after it was discovered that he had made statements highly favorable to McCarthy, and 2) Washington's Robb. attorney for ousted Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, for ousted Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Mack, and Government attorney in the successful 1954 ouster action...
...Married. Lester ("The Debutantes' Delight") Lanin, fiftyish, wiry, jumpy bandleader whose ubiquitous multicelled society orchestra commands fees up to $15,000, has been known to play for as many as 25 widely scattered parties in a single night; and Marilyn Weiss, 22, his secretary; both for the first time; in York...