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Hard Bargain. As a last resort, Partners Pickford and Chaplin turned to a lawyer named Arthur Krim, now 42, whose New York firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim specialized in movie litigation. Krim had attended Columbia Law School, edited its law review, graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) at the top of his class in 1932, and gone immediately into law practice During World War II, Krim, commissioned a lieutenant colonel, served as assistant to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. At war's end, Krim was named president of Railroader Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion Films...
...Tightwad! Next day Eleanor heaved an answering pie, a press release given out by the office of her lawyer, Louis Nizer.* Said Eleanor: "Those who have dealt with Mr. Rose throughout the years well know whether it is his clenched fist on a dollar or my alleged avarice which is responsible for the impasse . . . If he wants to find his real enemy, he need only look in the mirror . . . His present offer not to use his fraudulent affidavit, which has already been filed and communicated to all sorts of people, is like the act of a man who shoots somebody...
...this, Rose mockingly turned the other cheek. Said he: "Let's make everybody happy. I fully concede that Eleanor is the finest woman since Florence Nightingale; that Wes Bernie is a road-company Joan of Arc; that Louis Nizer, Eleanor's attorney, is president of the Sweet Fellows Club; that Alberta Jones has astigmatism, and it must have been three other people. And finally that Billy Rose has horns and hooves and ought to be ground up for hamburger...
...published a refugee magazine in German, Die Sammlung ("The Collection"), which ran two years. Exile Mann got his idea for Decision last year, spent six months selling it to rich U. S. friends. Some of his backers: Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann department stores; Lawyer Louis Nizer, who lately published a book. Thinking On Your Feet; Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco; Father Thomas Mann. A Czech citizen, in the U. S. on a visitor's permit, Klaus Mann gets no salary for his editorial labors, is not an officer of Decision, Inc. His only...
Many electric refrigerator companies are already in the field. In addition to the independents - Frigidaire, Nizer, Serv-el and Kelvinator, the Delco Light (General Motors subsidiary), the Savage Arms (makers of rifles and electric washing machines) and the General Electric Co. are also manufacturing the new electric refrigerators. That there is room for all seems likely, since there are 14,000,000 homes in this country wired for electricity, with 5,000 a year additional being wired each year...