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...DIED. MELVIN BELLI, 88, flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as representing televangelist Jim Bakker and Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...intricate and ambiguous dealings between brothers, can anyone be sure that an apparent act of principle isn't also, ever so slightly, a subtle act of retaliation? "David is a straight arrow, sensitive and moral. He didn't want to hurt his brother," notes Father Melvin La Follette, an Episcopal priest and a friend. "But at the same time, he was scrupulous. He wanted to do the right thing." David once trekked 40 miles to return an Indian flint knife to the place he found it after he learned it was wrong to move...
...NUYS, Calif.: A California physician has developed a new diagnostic method for treating some breast cancer tumors. Dr. Melvin Silverstein, a surgical oncologist, announced a system Wednesday that could prevent excessive treatments that many women now undergo. The process assigns points to three characteristics of the common DCIS (for ductal carcinoma in situ) tumors. The tumor's final "score" determines whether it can be safely ignored, removed, or treated with radiation or a mastectomy. Now, tumors are often treated too aggressively with radiation or breast removal that may be unnecessary. "Right now we do not know which tumors are going...
...Melvin Chen, a chemistry tutor in Currier House who studied music at the Juilliard School in New York, has practiced the violin several times with Ptashne and accompanied Ptashne in a performance at the party...
...DIED. MELVIN ("Slappy") WHITE, 74, comedian; of a heart attack; in Brigantine, New Jersey. White was one of the first African-American nightclub comics to play major white venues. His self-deprecating humor became a fixture of film, TV and "roasts...