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Attorneys for the York Daily Record and Buckner News Alliance filed a counterclaim in York County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, seeking dismissal of attorney Allen H. Smith's lawsuit over a March 28 editorial commenting on Smith's summation to jurors after a vehicular homicide trial. Judge Michael J. Brillhart recently ruled Smith cannot collect punitive damages. Attorney Jennifer Goldman contends in the counterclaim Smith, despite an awareness of the prohibition against filing unfounded lawsuits, did so to annoy and punish the newspaper for its exercise of protected speech.

Common Pleas Judge John H. Chronister Monday allowed [Allen H. Smith] to withdraw his legal representation of Terrence Ali Dowling, 20, and Edward Lee McDowell, 21, among those accused in the beating and stabbing death of a New York teen-ager, Dwayne \"Spanky\" [Tejada]. Smith told the court there is a conflict over the extent of his clients' involvement in the fight leading to Tejada's death as well as resentment between the two defendants.

Survivors: Wife; sons, Allen R. of Quakertown, Robert J. of Sellersville and Ronald J. of Warrington, Bucks County; daughters, Doris N., wife of Harold Heiter, Lucille M. Hance, wife of Donald Gehman, and Betty A. Bach, all of Quakertown; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by a daughter, Ellen Jean.

Some of the best pranks are done on the spur of the moment, such as one of my favorites, the first in [H. ALLEN SMITH]'s book. A Londoner on his way home from the store with a ball of twine spots a pompous looking gentleman approaching. Explaining that he is conducting an important land survey he asks the gentleman to hold one end of the twine and goes off around the corner unravelling the ball. As he reaches the end and begins wondering what to do, there approaches an equally pompous looking gentleman from the other direction. With the same explanation our prankster hands the second gentleman the other end of the twine and quickly disappears down an alley. Perhaps the practical joke's bad image stems from the fact that early practitioners of the art were often heavy-handed (on the other hand so were the early practioners of medicine). For example, Smith cites Chaucer's \"The Miller's Tale,\" in which considerable pain is inflicted on the butt of the joke. And that was mild by the standards of the day. Smith notes that practical jokes in the Middle Ages often resulted in the loss of an arm or in some cases a head. Anything for a laugh.

The author sets out to study the culture of the South, having read that climatic changes and geographical shifts were bringing the South to the North.

[Michael J. Brillhart], in an 11-page opinion handed down last week, ruled [Allen H. Smith] failed to allege any specific facts to support his \"conclusory assertions of common law malice and actual malice,\" requirements under the law in which a plaintiff seeks extra damages to punish a defendant for having acted not only with an evil or malicious intent but also with actual malice. Brogue native Gretel Smith, a senior at Goucher College in Baltimore, was one of the almost 2,000 people who stood vigil Saturday around the perimeter of Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., to protest the opening of the School of the Americas.

[H. Stanley Rebert] is accused of violating a basic rule of legal ethics by willfully withholding evidence from the defense in the 1988 murder and rape trial of Carlos Gene \"Zeek\" Moose Jr. Moose was convicted of raping 29-year-old Judy Ann Ketterman and beating her to death. The day of the original trial, Rebert told Moose's lawyer, Allen H. Smith that he had a statement from a jail-house informant to whom Moose had allegedly confessed. He had possessed the statement for five months, while repeatedly assuring Smith that he had turned over all his evidence, as required by law. Smith agreed to let the trial go forward after Rebert assured him he would not use the statement. But after Moose took the stand and denied the charges, Rebert used the statement in rebuttal.

They are \"Speaking of Operations\" by Irvin S. Cobb, \"Life in a Putty Knife Factory\" by H. Allen Smith, \"Peter Pauper's Pun Book\" and \"It All Started with Stones and Clubs\" by Richard Armour. The other books in the auction are \"Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology\" by J.W. Mackail, \"The Story-Life of Lincoln\" by Wayne Whipple, \"The Bridge of San Luis Rey\" by Thornton Wilder, \"Bits of Biography\" compiled by A.L. Byers and \"The Great Locomotive Chase\" by William Pittenger. In the bundle of books by 20th-century American humorists are \"Speaking of Operations\" by Irvin S. Cobb (1919), \"Life in a Putty Knife Factory\" by H. Allen Smith (1943), \"Peter Pauper's Pun Book\" (1962) and \"It All Started with Stones and Clubs\" by Richard Armour (1967).

Attorney Allen H. Smith said if his request is denied, he will ask that a special outside prosecutor be appointed to present the case at Derby's second trial. In his motion to Judge Emanuel A. Cassimatis Friday, Smith outlined what he considers to be a conflict of interest for the prosecution. If Derby is acquitted of homicide, Smith said property rights are lost by the daughters and [Steven M. Carr] experiences a financial detriment.

The story was published in 1942, and reading it made me wonder if [Red Barber] had had any contact with Thurber, the noted New Yorker writer and cartoonist, now deceased. A call to Barber, 80, now living in Tallahassee, provided some new twists. At about that time, Bill Corum, the Journal American sports columnist, went on leave, and Barber was selected to write the column in the interim. \"I wanted to call the column, `The Catbird Seat,' \" Barber said, \"but was advised by the paper's lawyers that I couldn't because [James Thurber] had a copywright on the title. Now that was getting the goose too far from the gander.\" Barber settled on \"Sitting in the Catbird Seat\" as his column title. \"One of the first people to interview me when I came to New York,\" Barber said, \"was [H. Allen Smith] for the World Telegram. We had a pleasant relationship living near each other in Westchester.\" Smith got Barber's permission to use Rhubarb as the name of a rambunctious cat who owned a baseball team in his comic novel by that name. \"Rhubarb\" was made into a movie.