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As the saying goes, sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words. But a photograph introduced into evidence during the recent trial of former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs might have generated a little sympathy for the player, who was charged with assaulting a female Dallas Police officer and found guilty of the lesser offense of resisting arrest.

The photo, one of six offered into evidence by prosecutors, showed the bruises on the female officer’s face. The trouble was, it also showed that the officer was wearing a Miami Dolphins T-shirt. (Prosecutors obviously were aware of the problem, because they did not introduce any photos illustrating facial bruises until they were pressured through legal maneuvering by Springs’ attorneys.)

“We decided not to say anything about the photo,” says Larry Mitchell, a member of the Springs defense team. “This was a serious trial and we thought it might be a little too cute. The photo just seemed to fit together with Ron’s testimony that the officer told him in the car that she didn’t like the Dallas Cowboys, except Roger Stau-bach.”



Already immigrant New Yorkers in Dallas have brought us their department stores, pizza, bagels and bad freeway manners. Should it come as any surprise that a New Yorker is responsible for the latest flashy change in Dallas’ night-time skyline?

If you relish the green outline of InterFirst Plaza, downtown’s newest and tallest skyscraper, you can thank Theo Kondos, the Big Apple lighting consultant who conceived the two miles of green argon tubing that outline Bramalea Corp.’s flashy development.

You may not be aware of it, but you’ve seen Kondos’ work all over town: He’s done interior and exterior work at Valley View Shopping Center and Blooming-dale’s, Marshall Field’s at the Galleria and the Adolphus Hotel. He’s in the process of lighting the Quadrangle and Tram-mell Crow’s new downtown skyscraper at 2200 Ross Ave.

“The InterFirst Plaza is a statement in the sky,” says Kon-dos. “I did the building in green because that’s the color you can see from the greatest distance, as far as 28 miles. It also is a color that cuts through pollution.”



Lawyers are everywhere, of course. They’re already making decisions in our legislatures, corporate board rooms, real estate brokerages, schools and even on the football field. Now a powerful Dallas law firm is setting its sights on another complexity of modern life-the high-tech area.

Claiming that Dallas’ diverse and booming high-technology community has generated a growing demand for yet another branch of specialized legal services, the Dallas fat-cat law firm of Gardere & Wynne is forming a high-tech section to represent companies engaged in the development and financing of “emerging technologies,” and companies with “high-tech problems.”



Horse racing may not be legal in Texas, but it’s sure been good to researchers at Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. Recently the school received an $825,000 grant from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust to support the work of two Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Joseph Goldstein, in the fields of cholesterol metabolism and atherosclerosis, a degenerative disease of the heart.

The Markey Trust was created under the will of the late Mrs. Markey, owner of Kentucky’s famed Calumet Farm racing stables, who endured years of good-natured criticism that her thoroughbreds won too much and too often. Her often-quoted response: “I give to charity, but not at the track.”



Rock star Bruce Springsteen, a long-time financial contributor to food banks all over the country, has once again proven that rock and roll and politics do mix. In his latest two-day concert stopover in Dallas, he repeatedly touted the North Texas Food Bank during introductions to his songs, as he did at Reunion Arena in November 1984. And once more at least some of his fans have answered his pleas to help stamp out hunger.

Marcie Feinglas, project director for the North Texas Food Bank, says Springsteen himself donated $25,000 to Texas food banks. In addition, Dallas concert-goers contributed $4,571 to the North Texas Food Bank, a total that will be split evenly with food banks in Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston/Galves-ton and Corpus Christi.

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