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...Edith Owen South Salem...
...Mickey Owen's dropped third strike in a different Yankee-Dodger Series...
...most of whom play more than one role, all give strong lively performances with especially fine timing and interaction. Cherry Jones is a charming incarnation of evil as Mother: Tony Shalhoub (Father) and Karen MacDonald (several roles) appear appropriately flimsy creatures, attracting attention without abandoning their feeble personalities. Marianne Owen (Nanny/Principal) is the best comedian, but she tends to be even more overpowering than her characters are intended to be, which distracts the audience from the rest of the show...
...decision had been eagerly awaited by legal scholars because it appeared to involve a clash between the right to literary ownership (copyright), which is provided for in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and the First Amendment guarantee of a free press. Owen, however, held that much of what Navasky called "hot news" had long since been a matter of public record. Wrote the judge: "The 'revelations' of the Ford memoirs were not such news, 'hot' or otherwise, as to permit the use of. . . copyrighted material." Legal researchers generally endorsed Owen's decision...
...legal costs as they will recoup from the $12,500 award for damages. The sum that they were granted represents the fee that was lost when TIME, which had purchased first magazine publication rights, withdrew under a contractual provision after portions of the book appeared in the Nation. Owen suggested in his decision that only an "oversight" in the copyright law prevented him from awarding the publishers their legal costs. The publishers described the battle as one of principle. Said Brooks Thomas, president of Harper & Row: "This is a significant victory. It says that you cannot steal literary property merely...