Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...E.D.T., CBS). Erie Stanley Gardner's famed lawyer-sleuth (Raymond Burr) is constantly embroiled in the best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even he is not above breaking...
...Jimmy Walker's dismay. "This fellow," cried the mayor, "would convict the Twelve Apostles if he could." But Seabury, authorized by a state legislative committee to pursue his investigations, was now ready to tackle James J. Walker himself. And the day finally came in the dusty old courtroom in the New York County Courthouse when Samuel Seabury said quietly: "Mr. Mayor, would you be good enough to take the stand...
Verdict's set is four-walled and solid as any courtroom. Once the half-hour sessions start, Director Byron Paul has little control over proceedings. When time comes for a commercial, a floor manager flings open a door out of camera range and holds up a sign saying "Suspend." At this signal, the appropriate lawyer usually launches into a long-winded objection, which Court Reporter Jim McKay breaks in on, explaining that here is a chance to hear from the sponsor...
...Manhattan courtroom, an all-male blue-ribbon jury studiously listened to the story of a thoroughly senseless murder. Seven boys, 15 to 19, were on trial for the gang killing of polio-crippled, 15-year-old Michael Farmer in a Washington Heights park in upper Manhattan last summer (TIME, Aug. 12). Developed by the prosecution and no fewer than 27 court-appointed defense lawyers, the story unfolded slowly: the gang, called the Egyptian Dragons, had armed themselves with knives, a machete, a heavy dog chain, sticks, pipes and garrison belts, slipped into the park looking for members of a rival...
...their verdict: guilty; one year in jail. "Zind's words rip open the old, barely healed wounds of the German people," declared Presiding Judge Johannes Eckert. "What thousands have tried to repair, one man with such words can destroy." But as Ludwig Zind walked out of the courtroom, where the audience had been plainly on his side, women wept at the verdict and men reached out to shake his hand...