Archive for January, 2010

  • The Technique of Scouting

    The Technique of Scouting

    Published in the University of Southern California's Pigskin Review in October of 1969, this article delves into the methods used by then USC Head Coach John McKay to scout for new offensive and defensive football players.

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  • They Call it Sam’s Corner

    They Call it Sam’s Corner

    End Sam Dikerson in his three years at USC has a place he can call home, that corner of the end zone where he most often scores and badly beats his opponents. Pigskin Review November 1970.

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  • Chucky Rising and birth of Synanon Foundation, Inc.

    Chucky Rising and birth of Synanon Foundation, Inc.

    He was born March 22, l913 in a small middle American town of Toledo, Ohio, marked and parted by the flowing Maumee River, the largest river feeding into the Great Lakes, and parked at the southwest extremity of Lake Erie...

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  • The True Story of the Rattlesnake in the Mailbox

    The True Story of the Rattlesnake in the Mailbox

    It was the eve of the Beatles invasion. When Happy Days was life, not a TV show. My high school senior class gathered on a Santa Monica beach--celebrating graduation and friendships we had no doubt would extend long beyond our current 17 years of existence.

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  • News Archive Timeline on Paul Morantz

    News Archive Timeline on Paul Morantz

    Jul 9, 1972 – In April, David Vinje, a respected member of the county public defender’s office, was murdered during a holdup in a Sherman Oaks bar called Lola’s Place. When another public defender, Paul Morantz, showed up at work the next morn he decided to write the story. From ABOUT THIS ISSUE ($$) – Related [...]

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  • The Fingerprint That Lied: Justice vs. William De Palma

    The Fingerprint That Lied: Justice vs. William De Palma

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  • Synanon’s Legal Troops Declare Holy War

    Synanon’s Legal Troops Declare Holy War

    Synanon legal Department and Paul Morantz

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  • New Times – The Horrors of Synanon

    New Times – The Horrors of Synanon

    This 1978 article explores Synanon, an organization that tried to murder Paul Morantz to keep him from pursuing legal judgment against them. At the time Synanon had become a major non profit corporation based on the ideals of creating a new society with its own private army, the Imperial Marines.

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  • Paul Morantz

    Paul Morantz

    Paul Morantz is a Los Angeles-based lawyer who has specialized in cult and brainwashing cases for over 20 years, specializing (perhaps the only attorney to do so) in litigating against cults and self-help groups raising the issue of brainwashing. He also specialized in suing psychotherapists and religious leaders for dual relationship violations and undue influence. In addition to practicing law, he is an author of numerous screenplays, books and magazine articles.

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  • Anthony Davis Superstar, Are You What They Say You Are?

    Anthony Davis Superstar, Are You What They Say You Are?

    Originally published in Los Angeles Magazine in 1972, this article is an enlightening profile of the USC Football star Anthony Davis in his prime.

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