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...seller Valley of the Dolls, got so upset. All Truman Capote had done was to mention to Johnny Carson, on the Tonight show, that Susann looked "like a truck driver in drag." No offense there. "Bitchy, yes; malicious, no," Capote explained in a letter to Susann's attorney, Louis Nizer, after she filed suit. Capote went on to praise Nizer's own letter to him as well written: "If only your client . . . had your sense of style!" Susann took this badly and caricatured Capote in her novel Dolores as Horatio Capon, a gossipy painter who resembled a "blondish...
...million). An oil refinery in Alberta, Canada, Bob Hope's 10,000 acres of California land and several Learjets. Those were just a few of the big-buck items available last week at the Sales Trade and Purchase International, a two-day event in Reno, described by Orga nizer Brian Lovig as a "swap meet for the elite...
...Stein, for example, is partial toward librarians because "they listen to reason." New York Legal Aid Society Attorney Dan Nobel is philosophical: "I look for someone who's basically not bitter about life, someone who knows that this is not the best of all worlds." Courtroom Star Louis Nizer suggests subtler methods. Says he: "If I see a juror who draws his mouth together very tightly, I'm inclined to think he's a severe fellow, too severe...
...much as $200 an hour, up from a high of $150 in 1975. Superstar trial lawyers like Boston's F. Lee Bailey and San Francisco's Melvin Belli regularly command flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median annual income in approximately 44 hours. Admits former Watergate Special Prosecutor James F. Neal, now practicing...
...fact, says Nizer, the Government's case was based on a suspicious but innocent transfer of funds between the man who did represent the Dominican Republic and Cassini. Any jury, he says, would have found for the defendant. Nizer pointed out the flimsiness of the Government's position to Jack Kennedy, who was shocked when Cassini's wife cracked under the strain and killed herself. Both Jack and Joe Kennedy urged mercy for Igor, but Bobby persisted. Finally, Nizer realized that Bobby had gone so far as to have the FBI tap his phone conversations with...