Word: nizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reivers, Faulkner (4) 5. Another Country, Baldwin (7) 6. The Prize, Wallace (6) 7. Uhuru, Ruark (5) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (10) 9. Letting Go, Roth (8) 10. Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss (9) NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (4) 4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5) 5. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (7) 7. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (8) 8. One Man's Freedom, Williams (6) 9. Veeck - as in Wreck, Veeck...
...state that "famed, publicity-sensitive Trial Lawyer Louis Nizer . . . brought tears even to the eyes of opposing Assistant State's Attorney James Thompson with the eloquence of his plea...
None of Pegler's legion of enemies turned out to be thornier than Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. After Pegler attacked Reynolds in print for "nuding along [with] a wench" and cowardice. Reynolds sued. In court in 1954, Reynolds' attorney, Louis Nizer, forced Pegler to admit that 130 statements he had made about Reynolds were untrue, and Reynolds was awarded $175,001. After that, the list of newspapers that carried Pegler gradually dropped from more than 200 to 140, and the columnist was tamed by heavy editing from Hearst...
...waited, famed publicity-sensitive Trial Lawyer Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer, who entered the case without fee at the last minute, brought tears even to the eyes of opposing Assistant State's Attorney James Thompson with the eloquence of his plea that Crump be spared because he was "a rehabilitated man, a newborn man, a transformed personality." Nizer read from 57 affidavits attesting to Crump's change of character, including one from the warden−the culmination of a massive public drive by columnists, clergymen and penologists to establish the principle that prison can reform a killer...
NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. In the Clearing, Frost (4) 4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 5. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (7) 6. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (8) 7. One Man's Freedom, Williams (9) 8. Six Crises, Nixon (6) 9. Men and Decisions, Strauss 10. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson...