European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday May 6,1907 columns wrong argument right arguer by Andy Honey none of us is so Bumble thai he does t look Backwith Pride on a few events in his past. Perhaps we were judged to have the Belt penmanship in the fourth Grade or we May have taken Home a trophy As Captain of the company s winning Bowling team. You have your memories i have mine. For the rest of my life t will recall with Pride the Day i was at tacked by William of Buckley or. In his column. It was or. Buckley s Contention hat i was legally and morally wrong when i declined to tape my "60minutes" segments during the writers Guild of Ameri Ca s strike against lbs. The outstanding thing about or. Buckley s column was not his tack of information but his precise use of the word  Rooney he wrote is pressing a Point entirely intrinsic to the dispute it was Buckley at his Best which is not faint Praise  me. I like hit ate of he language. He uses All of it while the rest of i Are confining our thoughts to description with fewer and fewer smaller and smaller words. If there was any shortcoming at All to or. Buckley s column it was that he did t know what he was talking about. Without having read my contract he said 1 was in violation of it. Without having bothered to find out that i be been a member of be writers Guild for 11 years he said that 1 was not a member. While 1 write for myself under the american federation of television and Radii artists contract in the past year 1wrote, As a Aga member and produced a segment for "60 minutes on which 1 did not appear f am Best known to my Peers not at someone who appears on camera but As a writer. The most hurtful line in or. Buckley s column read and there is no such thing As going after an Andy Rooney for failure to live up to his contract what hurts me about that wide from having one of my English usage heroes begin a sentence with the word and ii being relegated to a category of Andy Rodneys tile radio humorists Bob and Ray once did sketch in which they bad a spaceship orbiting the Earth at an Altitude of 50 feet to find out what effect it would have on an initiated Belt buckle. At that Altitude Bob wid Yon have to watch out for your Empire slate buildings your Eiffel  Ray picked it up your Taj mahals your bucking Ham palaces your Washington  1 share an opinion Many people have of themselves that there is Only Oik of me. 1 would have preferred a favourable comment on my action but i m grateful to have been noticed. After All it in t every Day that a person extrinsic to their Tive attracts the attention of the William f. Buckley junion of the world. Pc try n Hosl end fam win or Ose awyers a ways win Byatt Buchwald two lawyer were talking to each other at the next table. One was wearing a fire chiefs hat so i assumed he worked for Texaco. The other was putting Pennzoil on his salad. The Pennzoil Man said "1 feel like s11  the Texaco nun took a Twig of wine and replied you Don t have to rub it in. You know you la never see the Money. We be gone into  great mid the a in in Man. That Means we redoing to have to Nie you for in 1 was wondering How we were going to get some additional fees after he original suit was settled we re counting on Penn civil suing us. With that suit and our fees Lor bankruptcy every partner in my Law firm Wilt be Able to Send his kids to College. If fact if you dont sue us Well sue you continued the Texaco Man. We have a lifetime of Legal work staring us in the face and we re not letting it go Down the Drain became you people decide to Settle for less than s11 billion to cover the pain and anguish Texaco caused  the Pem Oil maa retorted it s great to be on upside of a billion Dollar suit what i would like to do is take this one to the supreme court. Then i could buy a new boat i be got my Eye  if we can take it to the court of appeals Iii be Able to Purchase that chalet in Aspen the Texaco Man said. Suppose the judge throws the suit out of court be cause a has no Merit where does that leave ust the Pennzoil Man said.  we can t sue a judge. But we can do the next Bel thing fight the thousands of unhappy stockholders who Are linux up ready to sue Texaco and Pennzoil for screwing up. Well be in court until the year 2001," the Pennou Man declared you make it sound so Good i think i la buy a Pri vate  there is an old saying in our profession when Yon have a sick Rich client a private plane pays for itself,1"the Pennzoil Man commented. When this Case started several years ago 1 was so sure we would not to out of court i figured i would Only make enough on in to boy borne in great neck said the Texaco lawyer Little did i dream i could buy the Trump Tower. I Feit the tame Way. Winning in t everything in this Case. The big Money is coming in new that to Cowon t pay the $11  the Texaco Man inquired what Are you going to do with your fees the same Thuu any struggling corporation lawyer would do. I m going to buy a Sunflower painting by Vincent Van  a. 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