Word: nizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIFE IN COURT (524 pp.)-Louis Nizer-Doubleday...
...terrible-tempered Columnist Westbrook Pegler fired off these charges against his onetime friend Author-Journalist Quentin Reynolds, in a tirade printed in 186 newspapers read by 12 million people. Reynolds retained Manhattan Attorney Louis Nizer to press charges for libel. Five years later, the case finally came to trial. Nizer forced Pegler to admit that he had once written that "it was all right to create fiction about a real person, because if you do it several years after it happens, nobody will know the difference anyhow." During the pretrial examinations, he read Pegler passages from unnamed authors. "Communist line...
...Discomfort. The Reynolds verdict is only one of the legal triumphs savored by Author Nizer in My Life in Court. A sort of East Coast version of the late Jerry Giesler (TIME, Jan. 12), Nizer won a whopping settlement for Eleanor Holm in her divorce action against Billy Rose, represented Bobo Rockefeller when she divorced Winthrop Rockefeller, proved that Charlie Chaplin had plagiarized the idea for The Great Dictator from Author Konrad Bercovici, masterminded Loew's, Incorporated's battle to prevent its takeover by deposed M-G-M Boss Louis B. Mayer...
...Life in Court, Nizer...
NONFICTION 1. My Life in Court, Nizer...