A leash, a wetsuit and wax are gear for which sport?

A lawsuit over sewing machine royalties between Elias Howe and which man was settled in 1854? A lawyer can't stop losing weight after he's cursed in which 1984 Stephen King novel published as Richard Bachman? Which lawyer, who won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1946, became the first African American on the Supreme Court? A leading literary light of Paris, which "Gigi" novelist was so respected she was given a state funeral in 1954? A leech is a segmented type of what creature? What slang term, common in boxing and baseball, refers to a left-handed person? Which word means both a left hook and a fruit juice beverage? A left-wing American magazine bears the nickname of which Cork-born labor organizer?