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BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger as Shyster Lawyer "Lucky Pierre" defends the Catwoman (Eartha Kitt) and the Joker (Cesar Romero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 5, 1968 | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...addition to the North Vietnamese divisions based just north of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence detected two full divisions and elements of a third along the Cambodian frontier, waiting to attack the Central Highlands. There were reports by neutral observers that the Russians have sent Hanoi ground-to-ground Shyster missiles, 750-mile intermediate-range weapons that could reach Saigon from North Viet Nam. And the week's casualties pushed U.S. deaths in Viet Nam over the 10,000 mark, making Viet Nam the fifth costliest war in U.S. history (after World War II, the Civil War, World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: To Hanoi with Candor | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Here's Johnny" [April 28], you quote me as referring on the air half-facetiously to my attorney, Arnold Grant, as "Louie the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." You are wrong, and you owe an apology to one of the most respected attorneys in the profession. I have never mentioned Arnold Grant by name, or referred to him indirectly, on my program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1967 | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...couple of weeks, part of me will remain here . . . my ulcers, my headaches, etc. NBC has been very generous in giving me time off during the year. Of course, it pays to have a good lawyer . . . you've heard of mine, 'Tony' [not Louie] the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." This was not said "half-facetiously." It was obvious farce, having no relationship to any person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1967 | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...true that he objected to NBC's rerunning of his old tapes during the strike, Carson's chief concern was his own future. Some time earlier, he had hired Show Biz Attorney Arnold Grant, to whom he referred on the air half-facetiously as "Louie the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." In the demand for a new contract, Grant and Lawyer Louis Nizer reportedly asked for a base salary jump from $15,000 to $30,000 a week, plus a hefty cut of the Tonight earnings, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Here's Johnny | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

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