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Making the courtroom scene in Perry Mason fantasy
In a travel tale to Scarsdale, John Crosby riffs on television critics and courtroom drama. Oswald Carruthers mocks real lawyers as useless, praising Perry Mason as escapist romance while lampooning modern legal billing and incompetence. The piece riffs on law firm caricatures Avaricious Dilatory Flyspeck Stupid and the gap between dream and reality.
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Scarsdale
Oswald G. Carruthers
Princeton
Perry Mason
Bar Association
Oswald
Avaricious
Dilatory
Flyspeck & Stupid
Florida
Jimmy Hoffa
Trujillo