Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since July 12 Chief Magistrate F. E. Field, who doubles as coroner, has been taking longhand testimony in his tiny, packed courtroom in Nassau. Nancy has watched him laboriously fill one sheet of foolscap after another, passing them round for witnesses and lawyers to read. When his writer's cramp gets too bad, hearings are limited to two hours a day, and Alfred de Marigny fills in the time in his cell, he has told Nancy, composing poems to the mosquitoes...
...scene: Cinemate Fields ending the masquerade by partially disrobing bearded Cinemactor Woolley in a courtroom. She discloses two large identifying moles (near his collarbone...
...sensitive, beautiful Cinemactress Frances Farmer, who had never troubled to conform, was in a Los Angeles hospital last week. Given a six months suspended sentence for drunken driving last October, she was hailed to court again last week for getting into a drunken fracas, fought and kicked in the courtroom, was sent away for mental observation...
...November, 30-year-old Sydney Leibbrandt and six of his Rebels went before the Transvaal Division of the South African Supreme Court charged with high treason. For a month Leibbrandt remained calm, arrogant, defiant. Then, last week, into the courtroom strode a bemedaled Nazi parachutist captured in the recent Middle East fighting. Believing his testimony would get his fellow Nazi "honorable" treatment as a prisoner of war, the soldier positively identified Leibbrandt, coolly told how they had trained together as parachutists in Germany...
...first time that Ralph Coghlan's Irish temper had got him into the news. Three years ago he got so editorially inflamed about a raw acquittal in a St. Louis courtroom, he found himself, charged with contempt of court. This brought a 20-day jail sentence (later reversed). Few months later, when Franklin Roosevelt traded the 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Editor Coghlan ripped off an editorial titled Dictator Roosevelt Commits an Act of War, bought space in New York and Washington papers to advertise his views...