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Chairman Dies lay ill in Texas, but his Committee's answer was to subpoena Mayne. Shortly it announced that the letters were forgeries, that Mayne had admitted writing them himself. How did they come into the hands of Congressman Hook? Few days later up popped three answerers, ready & willing to explain: wealthy Gardner Jackson, well known in Washington as an incorrigible crusader for many a liberal cause, Harold Weisberg, his collaborator on a forthcoming book about the Dies Committee, and a newspaperman named John Henshaw. Henshaw had told Weisberg about the Mayne letters, Weisberg had told Jackson. Jackson, indignantly...
...Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel, a process server cornered Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, handed her: 1) a subpoena to appear as a witness, 2) 50? for carfare, 3) 50? for a day's fee. Occasion: a $150,000 libel suit brought against Collier's by Joseph R. Levy, divorced husband of Paulette Goddard's mother, be cause, he alleged, a story was published saying he was Paulette's stepfather, not father. Cinemactress Goddard failed to show up and the court decreed a command performance on Jan. 16 in which she should tell why she should...
...Lawyer (by Richard Maibaum & Harry Clork; produced by George Abbott) is one of those athletic farces which have the delicacy of a subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie...
Jack Cahill, Bill Campbell took on a dean of the bar in Weymouth Kirkland and forced him to obey a subpoena for key evidence in the Annenberg case, which Lawyer Kirkland unsuccessfully tried to ignore on the ground of sanctity in the relation between lawyer & client. In Bill Campbell's hands will be the red-hot Skidmore case. Cardinal Mundelein and labor-loving Bishop Sheil are among his most active admirers...
After a sharp radiogram from Brien McMahon, criminal division chief in the Attorney General's Office, Judge Thomas snorted that a subpoena was unnecessary, promised to debark in the Canal Zone and return immediately if necessity demanded. Though Federal authorities said they wanted Judge Thomas and his books chiefly for the Manton investigation, they confessed their interest in a case from Judge Thomas' own court: the McKesson & Robbins receivership that exploded the notorious Coster-Musica drug scandal (TIME...