Word: rifkind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SIDNEY E. RIFKIND University City...
...Oppenheimer was represented (without fee) by the Manhattan firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and by Herbert Marks, onetime general counsel for the AEC. Famed Constitutional Lawyer John W. Davis, fresh from his defeat in the school segregation cases, joined in writing an appeal brief to the AEC, which has final jurisdiction in the case...
...hearing was devoted to a reading aloud of Winchell's columns by lawyers, plainly a pleasant ordeal for Winchell. In good humor, he volunteered so many comments that his own lawyer cautioned him: "It is better if you would just listen." When Post Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind, onetime federal judge, set forth that Winchell had printed Russian propaganda, Winchell amiably agreed. "Do you remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used in his column such Winchellese...
...Russia was an ally of the U.S. during World War II, Winchell observed, and while he had no love for Communists, he had also loathed many of the "Sovvy-baiters." "Do you think it would be fair to comment that you had been duped [by the Communists]?" asked Rifkind. "[I] might have been," answered Winchell. "And was your column used as a place to plant pro-Communist propaganda?" "I am wide open to that, too," replied Winchell. "Anybody is, I believe, that writes in the public papers...