Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Belli's methods sometimes exceed traditional limits. In one celebrated case, in which he acted for a woman who had lost one leg, Belli brought a grotesque, leg-shaped package into the courtroom. It was wrapped in butcher's paper, tied with twine. Throughout the trial, the jury stared in horrified fascination at the package. Finally, near the end of the trial, Showman Belli slowly and deliberately opened the package-and handed the contents to a startled juror. It was an artificial leg, of the sort the plaintiff would have to wear for the rest...
...conspiracy of silence"; few physicians, he declares, will risk testifying against a fellow doctor, for fear either of reprisal by medical associations or of loss of their own malpractice insurance. He got a measure of revenge in a 1949 case in which he appeared for an aging woman who charged that a specialist had promised to give her "the breasts of a virgin." The doctor, complained the plaintiff, had mutilated her instead. The judge permitted the plaintiff to disrobe to the waist before the jury in the judge's chambers. "She stood there," says Belli, "the tears dripping down...
...laws. Her husband will no longer be able to be unfaithful with impunity, nor will he be allowed to take his bastard children into the house as if they were legitimate, or repudiate his wife at whim. A married man, seen too often in the company of an unmarried woman, is apt to find himself having to explain his conduct to the authorities. In the first version of the bill, divorce was outlawed entirely. But on this point, Mme. Ngo did not quite get her way: the Assembly passed an amendment empowering the President to grant divorces in cases where...
...India Prime Minister Nehru's handsome 41-year-old daughter, Indira Gandhi, emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to M.P. Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), has two young sons, is a determined left-winger and a close confidante of her father, as well as his official hostess. The only foreseeable bar to her election next month would be Nehru's disapproval, and, in accepting the nomination, Indira...
...28th anniversary issue of the Hollywood Reporter (384 pp.) and the silver jubilee issue of Daily Variety (436 pp.). Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice review? Oh, by the way, we have a special edition coming up. Wouldn't you like to take an ad?' Usually I can think of ways I'd much rather spend my money. As a matter of fact...