Word: brewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Courthouse Reporter Sam Giaimo, Allen and Giaimo began to dig deeper into the court. What they found provided the Press with frontpage headlines for weeks, scandalized Cleveland, and started a Bar Association investigation. Last week, as a direct result of the Allen-Giaimo stories, Probate Judge Nelson J. Brewer resigned from the bench and quit the practice of law for good. It was the first time that a Cleveland newspaper had forced a judge to resign...
Favors for a Few. Brewer, 69, a distinguished-looking and irascible ex-state legislator, had been the sole judge of the probate court in Cuyahoga County for 20 years, was three times reelected. It was Brewer's responsibility to appoint trustees and guardians to manage the funds of widows, orphans and insane persons, and to approve (or disapprove) their periodic accounts. The first thing that struck Reporters Allen and Giaimo as off-key was the judge's policy of doling out trusteeships; Judge Brewer limited them to a few lawyers, named one lawyer (who had previously been suspended...
Services for the Dead. But it was the case of the late Thomas Wracan that really nailed Judge Brewer. For 17 years, reported Allen and Giaimo, Brewer had been acting as guardian of a dead man. For his mythical services, Brewer had paid himself $500 in fees and failed to turn over $359 more. In all, charged the Press, Brewer, instead of winding up his guardianships when he first became a judge, was still short in accounts by $6,300; with interest, that brought the amount Brewer owed to nearly...
Summertime, U.S.A. (Tues. & Thurs., 7:45 p.m., CBS-TV) is filled with danceable music and pretty girls. Using scarcely a line of dialogue, the show features Crooner Mel Torme and Teresa Brewer, a topnotch singer with a voice somewhere between a blowtorch and a cello. Also on hand: the Honeydreamers quintet, and a trio of dancers cavorting at different U.S. vacation spots each week. The Thursday commercials, plugging General Electric, are unobjectionable...
...Holiday) need authentic foreign settings. By making pictures in Europe, a few of the big producers, e.g., MGM, have put their blocked foreign currency to work. Many independent producers, finding it hard to raise money in the U.S., have stretched their dollars further abroad. And such unions as Roy Brewer's Film Council (TIME, April 27) have helped boost film costs skyhigh; labor costs overseas are anywhere from 20% to 50% below the U.S., and foreign sets and props are far cheaper...