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...collision came in 1931 after Seabury, in retirement after serving on the New York Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals, was summoned by the Appellate Division to investigate the city's lower courts. Earnestly, painstakingly, he raked the muck of city corruption among lawyers, bondsmen, cops, judges and pimps on the city payroll...
...this week's first observation of Law Day, U.S.A., TIME correspondents and stringers across the U.S. sought out lawyers, judges, law professors-even bail bondsmen-and pinned them down on their favorite subject. Into TIME'S wire room poured thousands of words of reportage that portrayed a picture of the U.S. that was a surprise even to serious students of the law-a genuine awareness that it is time to think beyond mere laws to find the principles of Law itself. For the sum of the reportage, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Work of Justice...
...said to my cell mate. The drunk's eyes flickered, then he swallowed once and turned over, unconscious. An hour, then two, went by as I watched the more sober ones go out to talk to bondsmen. Finally the guard stopped in front of cell 28, "What did I tell you, boy, Freddie will spring...
Hereditary bondsmen! know...
...Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before the paper folded. In the next four years he wrote more than 750 feature stories for the World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about the newspaper business before he left it was a Hearst executive's dictum: "The public is interested in just three things: blood, money...