JUDICIARY: Knight Out

The language most lawyers use might just as well be written in Sanskrit, so far as the layman is concerned. But no man, no matter how lay, would have trouble understanding the language of Lawyer Richard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used to shock friends and intoxicate New York tabloid readers by such didos as kicking out taxicab windows and standing on his head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two...

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