Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Gilbert Godard was busy spending his insurance money on 1) a new house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
...when the Philharmonic-Symphony wants to play a Soviet work, it usually rents the score and parts from Leeds; if anybody wants to make a new record of the popular Sabre Dance from Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet, he had better see Leeds; the publisher won a lawsuit over copyright...
...Small Clique." When the Foster faction made much of the court ruling before the national committee, Atlanta Lawyer Elbert Tuttle had a sharp retort: "This lawsuit is another evidence of the conniving done by this group when it doesn't seek relief at the proper place ... If a judge in some little county of the committeemen's own state-say Clarence Brown's Ohio-should issue such a ruling, would they pay any attention to it?" Said Tucker, in his brief to the committee: "This small clique . . . simply purported to set up a series of meetings...
Suits & Suitcases. It was wonderful fun for the highbinders who could get it. Still pending in a Havana court is a lawsuit brought by an Orthodox (Reform) Party Senator demanding that Grau and his ministers, including Prío, explain what happened to $174,241,840.14 that seemed to have disappeared during Grau's regime. The Senator's title for his case: "The greatest theft in history." But the greatest of the thieves is not named in the suit. José Manuel Alemán, Grau's favorite minister, who stole not one but an estimated hundred...
...case of nerves during the chaotic train and plane rides of a series of one-night stands. Boyer called in Gregory and announced that he was quitting. Gregory silkily assented, but added, as an afterthought, that the instant Boyer left he would be served with a $100,000 lawsuit for breach of contract. With Gallic practicality, Boyer calmed down...