Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in Greenville's yellow brick courthouse, the trial began. It was the biggest lynching trial the South had ever known. Day after day, the courtroom was jammed with shirt-sleeved spectators. Hundreds were turned away...
...trial again by the re-established Italian Republic. He took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound had distorted his mouth. For the first time after two decades of rumor, Dumini told a graphic story of the famous killing...
...year-old, fun-loving chief was charged with desertion by his 61-year-old, home-loving wife, Margaret, after nearly 43 years of marriage. They had been separated for the past three years; everything was pretty well arranged now, and there would probably be no shouting in the courtroom. Mrs. Mayer would get a cash settlement-much more, said her attorney, than the $2,000,000 one tipster guessed...
...Soviet espionage in Canada, made last week what might be his final public appearance under his own name. The occasion was the trial in Montreal of Dr. Raymond Boyer, onetime Government explosives expert who is charged with conspiring to give secret information to Russia. While seven Mounties guarded the courtroom, Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear of the court and stepped out of the limelight...
Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, café and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight...