Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...
...those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before. As he ranted, he stood close behind U.S. Attorney John M. Kelley Jr.; from time to time Kelley brushed chewed fragments of Palmer's Life Savers from his hair...
...Defense Attorney Palmer played it as though the Government's attorneys were just straight men in his act. In cross-examining the agent who described Miss Coplon's arrest, he snatched up her handbag, minced up & down before the jury. "Now comes this great eclipse," he bawled, "this marvelous piece of FBI ideology!" When searching her, he said, the FBI had "stripped her from pillar to post" and from "topsail to feet...
...Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets settlements from two self-confessed hit & run drivers, and gives a stuffy district attorney plenty of what-for right in open court...
Rogge is an eminent lawyer and a former U. S. Assistant Attorney General. However, his book will not be taken too seriously by many people who consider that he is now less respectable because he ran for New York County Surrogate on the American Labor Party ticket and because he has defended unpopular people in generally unpopular causes...