Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full Circle. Last week Fred Erwin Beal had come full circle. He returned to Gastonia to be restored to the U.S. citizenship he had lost. In the summer-hot courtroom he stood, a heavy-waisted man of 52, and told Judge Wilson Warlick earnestly: "I am one of the greatest foes of Communism in America. I would rather be an American prisoner than a free man in Russia...
...vision, impenetrable skin and muscle, Superman has been no great shakes in a courtroom. After a falling out with their publishers a year ago, Siegel & Shuster filed a super-suit for $5,000,000. Among other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications...
...patients could testify in person. A middle-aged man told the courtroom how his wife had died after treatment by the optimistic old brothers. A young widow from Erie, Pa. told how her husband had used four jugs of the diabetes medicine; he then got ulcerous sores, went blind, and died...
...Expiation. Henry and Annette would not have left so many letters if they had not been forced to spend half their lives apart-he, sitting in the fetid courtroom "jabbering Bengali 6 or 7 hours every day with the artful dodgers;" she, reviving her pallid children in the cool hills of Darjeeling and Mussoorie; when the children were taken to school in England both had to be separated from them. "We (excuse me dear)," wrote Henry at last, "are so old that we may not see much of our children or they of us if we wait till our retirement...
Labor's biggest whale was reduced to herring size last week. In a brief climax to a long legal fight, John Lewis floated once again into a Washington courtroom, sniffed contemptuously at newsmen, stood up and glared when Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough came in, then plumped himself down to hear his fate...