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...energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge William Blanton remembers when Marshall and another woman lawyer were known disparagingly around the courthouse as "Laverne and Shirley." Now, he says, "I'm sure glad I'm not a young male lawyer having to contend with...
...quotes a letter from Forger Arthur Sutton, whom Hamilton had helped to expose, causing Sutton to plead guilty to fraud. "I have always had the greatest respect for you," wrote Sutton, who crafted the signatures of famous figures from Sitting Bull to Richard Nixon and Marilyn Monroe. "I am glad I have been caught and can promise I will never forge any autographs ever again." Admitted Hamilton, in a public aside to Sutton: "It is the forgeries and fakes that give piquancy and excitement to the chase. Without them, philography would be a pretty dull pursuit...
...chart showing how Werner's salary and bonuses had gone from about $160,000 a year to nearly $525,000 at the same time that GAF's stock dropped from $42 to $10. Said GAP Stockholder Ben Alderson before the annual meeting started: "I'm glad to see someone like Heyman upset the canoe. I've had stock for ten years, and I'm not at all satisfied." After a chaotic, three-hour session that was interrupted by arguments over rules of order, Werner, fearful that he was losing to Heyman, postponed the deadline...
...There was a lot of tension, but the engagement ended it," Jamie agrees. "I'm glad we didn't wait longer...
Kohl's less-than-glad tidings were delivered on behalf of the entire ten-nation European Council, of which he currently holds the rotating presidency. The Europeans are frankly worried that the U.S. is once again considering a tightening of the screws on East-West trade in the ideological war between Washington and Moscow. They fear that the use of the trade weapon may turn up on the agenda of next month's summit meeting of the seven leading industrial nations at Williamsburg, Va.* Kohl's delicate diplomatic mission was intended to head off that possibility...