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...burly Justice John E. McGeehan, good Catholic, good Democratic "organization judge," got the case. Before him last week appeared Lawyer Goldstein with his plaintiff and four of his Lordship's published works,* proceeded to review the offending books. Said Critic Goldstein, Philosopher Russell's writings are "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Furthermore, he roared, the Earl had run an English nudist colony, gone in for salacious poetry, winked at homosexuality...
...Petitioner Kay, the session marked her first appearance in a courtroom. Her husband, interviewed, said proudly: "She's no prude. She listens to a nice joke. She don't tell them, but she listens to them." With the philosopher's works under his arm, Justice McGeehan left court. In a blistering 17-page decision he held...
...Grantland Rice went on murmuring genteel phrases that made football sound as leisurely as golf, as intellectual as chess. But Damon Runyan had become a general columnist and short-story writer; so had Paul Gallico. Westbrook Pegler discoursed solemnly about politics, as did Heywood Broun. William O'Connell McGeehan and Ring Lardner were dead...
...Bronx, Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan warned a jury panel that $500 worth of property had been stolen from his chambers in a few weeks' time, explained: "Nothing is safe around here unless it is nailed down. [Someone] even made away with my towels and soap...
...quite knows how much of the legend is Casey and how much is the imagination of Sportswriters Ring Lardner, W. O. ("Bill") McGeehan, Ed Anthony, Joe Williams and friends. The legend was built on a prosaic baseball career that began in Kansas City in 1910. In 1912 Casey (for K. C.) went up to the National League as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1918 he was traded to Pittsburgh, then to Philadelphia, New York and Boston of the National League...