Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the killers are foredoomed by their past and have the apathy of the doomed. But once in a while the bravado of a political prisoner creates drama. From Rome, TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light...
Married. Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, 47, handsome Hollywood gynecologist whose 1935 divorce from Cinemactress Mary Astor heralded the famed courtroom squabble over custody of their child (for three weeks U.S. tabloids went tantivy after her two-volume diary, rich in purple patches); and Virginia Bancroft Mitchell, 25; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...courtroom's silence the prisoner clutched his gold-braided cap, turned his face toward dishonor, mumbled: "I would have preferred death...
When Judge Sullivan read his 18-page opinion, Montgomery Ward's $100,000-a-year chairman, stubborn Sewell Lee Avery, was absent from the courtroom. At the lush San Marcos Hotel in Chandler, Ariz., where he was resting, Avery called it "a great day for labor...
Outside, in Cairo's dingy streets in the Citadel quarter, policemen with fixed bayonets ringed the court. Inside, British sappers had searched the courtroom from top to bottom for mines. On the crowded courtroom benches the red tarbooshes bobbed up & down. The whispers of the perfumed mascaraed women rose to an excited buzz. Then the two handcuffed prisoners were ushered in-short, stocky, red-faced Eliahu Bet Tsouri, his arms defiantly akimbo; tall, pale, black-mustached Eliahu Hakim, his slender fingers tightly twisted round the iron-spiked bars of the dock...