Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time that able, intense Gabe Pressman has made trouble for the authorities. Touring Europe on a Pulitzer traveling scholarship at 24, Columbia Graduate Pressman tried to crash the trial of Hungarian Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, was told there were no seats left. He produced pictures showing empty seats in the courtroom and was admitted, one of the two U.S. correspondents at the trial (the other: U.P.'s Ed Korry). Back in the U.S., Pressman got a job as a City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station WRCA...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Defender, second installment of Reginald Rose's two-part courtroom drama...
Like every U.S. company. General Electric Co. believes that nothing helps business like being nice to big customers. But last week G.E. learned to its horror of a case where things had gone too far. In a Mann Act case in a Manhattan courtroom, three call girls testified that at least three times last year one or another of them had given her all for G.E. products. Lewis E. Rinker and John A. Murray, both officials of G.E.'s supply company in Newark, N.J., admitted they paid the girls to entertain important customers, .all in the interests of good...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Defender, first installment of a two-part courtroom drama by Reginald Rose, with Ralph Bellamy...
...Testing the Breeze. As the court resumed its hearings, police clubs again thwacked on Negro bodies outside the drill hall, but this time the police scrupulously refrained from using their guns. Inside the sweltering courtroom, fatherly-looking Magistrate Frederick Wessel graciously agreed to let the defendants remove their jackets...