Word: suede
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Murdoch met secretly with Ross and Chris-Craft Chairman Herbert Siegel in the Manhattan offices of Allen & Co., the Australian's investment banker. Ross and Siegel reportedly tried to persuade Murdoch to sell his Warner shares, but they must have failed. Murdoch subsequently sued Warner and Chris-Craft in...
The latest round of litigation in the Baby Jane Doe case was initiated by A. Lawrence Washburn Jr., 48, an attorney whom Baby Jane's parents have come to see as their tormentor. In mid-October, Washburn, a longtime antiabortion activist, first sued to force doctors to ignore the...
It was the kind of case whose outcome seemed to justify Mr. Bumble's judgment that "the law is a ass." A man who jumped in front of a subway train in an attempt to kill himself sued the local transit authority-and won a $650,000 settlement. Only...
In 1977, Milo Stephens Jr., a 19-year-old with a long history of emotional disturbance, threw himself into the path of a subway train as it pulled into a station on Manhattan's East Side. One of the cars ran over him, severing a leg, one arm and...
Campbell Soup, which manufactures Godiva chocolates, was not amused. In a letter to Grey, the company charged that she was "passing off inauthentic and offensive merchandise" that looked like candy for humans and "may constitute a danger to public health." Campbell demanded that she supply a list of her customers...