Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee's investigative work. When Hoffa was arrested and tried on bribery and conspiracy charges before a jury of eight Negroes and four whites, Hoffa's good "friend," ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, made a conspicuous show of himself in the courtroom. During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy, he said, would wait till the jury's eyes were turned from him, then raise a hand as if to rub his neck. Cheasty saw what Hoffa wanted him to see: a Hoffa thumb zipping across the throat in an unmistakable gesture...
...steaming, jampacked courtroom in Maebashi, 60 miles northwest of Tokyo, U.S. Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard went on trial for manslaughter. In court last week, eying him coldly, was the teen-age daughter of the 46-year-old Japanese woman whom Girard shot in the back on a firing range seven months ago. Until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Japan had the right to try him (TIME, July 22), the Girard case was headline material on both sides of the Pacific and the focal point, in the U.S., of more jingoistic and uninformed editorial comment than perhaps...
Outside the courtroom swarms of swallows twittered in the cherry trees, and various Japanese protest groups milled about urging everything from the utmost leniency to the death penalty for the prisoner in the dock. Inside the courtroom the electric fans stopped whirling because of power shortage, and everyone broke out collapsible rice-paper fans...
...undressed pictures and well-fleshed tales about the stars. Many of the stories that blew up newspaper headlines had run in the scandalmags long ago, but the trial also began to pry loose one story that has never been told: how the gutter press scrapes up the dirt. From courtroom testimony and questioning of smut-smugglers from Manhattan to Hollywood. TIME describes this week how the top scandalmag operates. For Confidential's own inside story, see PRESS, Putting the Papers...
Having rattled most of the skeletons in Hollywood's closet and even planted some hand-fabricated new ones, five-year-old Confidential (circ. 3,269,954) started blabbing its own secrets. In a green-and-gold Los Angeles courtroom, where bimonthly Confidential ("Tells the Facts and Names the Names") and its sister-in-smut Whisper ("The Stories Behind the Headlines") are being tried on charges of criminal libel and conspiracy to publish obscenity, prosecution witnesses gradually yielded answers to a question that has long vexed Hollywood and intrigued scandalmag readers. How do the bedroom-beat boys and girls...