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...journalist, he can read a book on writing for "people who are just about average." He can rate his happiness on a Euphorimeter and check up on his psychological health by answering questions: "Are you plastic? Are you always able to fit in?" Author Whitman is a Nova Scotia-born magazine writer, wife of a teacher and mother of two grown children. On lecture tours, she has long attacked this slowly hardening concept of man as "a million divided by a million." Even a belief in the existence of the "common man" can be dangerous...
...Omnipotent. The trial last week quickly turned into a bout between Nova and sportswriters in general. The day after the fight, Flaherty's lawyers pointed out, other sportswriters gave Nova an even worse beating than he had received from Louis. "Nova is a spectacular bum [whose] challenge consisted of retreating in hot haste the entire fight," wrote Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan. Added the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "All Nova showed against the champ was timidity. The fight was . . . an utter stinker ... As to the 'cosmic punch,' Lou doesn't know...
...Nova explained that in the bewildering aftermath of the fight he had not read what the sportswriters had written about him. It was just as well, remarked Superior Court Judge Newcomb Condee, because "if Mr. Flaherty had written his column the day after the fight, Mr. Nova would have had to sue a thousand writers." Nova freely admitted that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record...
...stand, he pointed out that he had gone no farther than other sportswriters. But his vivid account of the scene in the dressing room was secondhand; he had not visited the dressing room. Flaherty's lawyers read a deposition from Ex-Champion Joe Louis, who said: "It seemed Nova was scared." How could Louis tell? "Well," he answered, "you look another fighter in the face and you know whether he's afraid from whether he looks...
Nevertheless, after three hours of deliberation, the jury decided that the word "cowardly" was too strong to describe Nova's performance against Louis, awarded Nova $35,000 in damages. As Flaherty and the Hearst lawyers prepared an appeal, sportswriters shuddered at the dampening effect the decision might have on their own prose. For his own part, Lou Nova had seldom received such bad press notices as he did in this rare moment of real victory. Not a single U.S. daily or wire service reported a word about the trial or Nova's victory in court...