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...days after the Florida ruling. In similar damage cases elsewhere, the courts have been trending against the cigarette companies. At first, courts from Massachusetts to Louisiana threw out the damage claims; then last November a federal district court jury in Pittsburgh found that Chesterfields (Liggett & Myers) had been "one of the causes" of lung cancer in a suing carpenter, but absolved the company on grounds that the smoker had knowingly assumed the risk. The Florida court went much far ther, ruling that American Tobacco's very act of marketing and advertising contained an "implied warranty" that cigarettes are safe...
WILLIAM WALLACE LIGGETT Berkeley, Calif...
John W. Keefe Jr., '64, of Matthews Hall and Braintree, has been named winner of the $300 first prize in the Liggett and Myers football contest, for the closest prediction of the 1960 Harvard-Yale score. Second and third prizes--$150 and $50--were won by Yalies...
Daniel Mann apparently is showing off his directorial ability in the long opening scene, in which Miss Taylor wakes up, mumbles "Liggett" twice, and then goes about her toilette. Mr. Mann faithfully records Miss Taylor as she stretches, yawns, wipes the sleep out of her eyes, brushs her teeth, gargles, and so on. I was expecting the camera to show Miss Taylor as she . . . well, never mind what I was expecting. It is this sort of moronic half-faithfulness to the book--reflected again a bit later when a taxi driver nearly runs down a couple and then cusses them...
...When Liggett rhapsodizes at the end of the movie that Gloria may have been bad on the outside but that "inside, her every fibre was striving for respectability," the only thing any self-respecting movie-goer can do is walk out. But this gesture, if the viewer has waited this long, is about two hours too late to do any good...