ddnoe{at}bellsouth.net wrote:
> I've got a story about Gladys Towles Root, a flamboyant attorney who
> specialized in defending men accused of sex crimes, up at
>
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/root/1.html?sect=13.
>  She has fascinated me since I was a child. Her office held the
record
> for winning acquittals for men accused of rape, child molesting and
> other sex offenses.  What do you think of this lady?  What do you
think
> of my article on her?
>    I think her life story would make a great movie.  The actress who
> played her would be wearing more exotic garments than those typically
> worn by Cher!

I've only read the first and second chapter, but one small thing I'd
take exception to would be the line "She was born in Los Angeles to a
housewife named Clara Dexter Towles and a father named Charles Towles
who worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company."

I don't think "housewife" (sex/relationship/occupation) and
"father...who worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company"
(sex/relationship, occupation) balance each other. Better just to
describe the mother as the "stay-at-home wife and mother" or just as
"the mother". To describe her solely by the (largely devalued)
occupation "housewife" is derogatory, in my opinion.



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