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Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...
...pretrial sparring that kept the Chicago trial from a final showdown for years, RCA in 1954 hired Lawyer Adlai Stevenson to get an injunction against U.S. District Judge Michael Igoe on the charge that he was biased. Stevenson lost in the U.S. Supreme Court. Igoe finally set the trial for last week. By that time Zenith had spent $2,000,000 on legal fees and gathering evidence and RCA $5,000,000. But the case did not come to trial, apparently because Zenith had gathered too much legal ammunition to fire...
During the pretrial investigation, the widow of the slain Chinese had told police that her husband knew Reynolds. But neither the prosecution nor the defense called her as a witness, nor made any attempt in court to explore the relationship, if any. The result was to lend credence to widely repeated rumors all over Taipei that the dead man and Ser geant Reynolds had some kind of connection, perhaps in black-market activities...
More than half the accused, mostly hollow-cheeked young men in their early 20s, withdrew their pretrial confessions...
...grey-flannel-suited dirt farmerette from New Jersey named Doris Duke, better known as a money-marinated tobacco heiress and sometime jazz pianist, bitterly argued the merits of floribunda hedges and compost heaps in a Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget...