Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safest place--in the hands of the majority. Committee meetings could get underway only after majority authorization, and a requirement of four days' notice for meetings outside Washington should insure the presence of at least several members at every hearing. And since evidence would be introduced exclusively by courtroom procedure, members would be able to prohibit the assorted mail and stolen documents that clutter committee transcripts...
Even a majority, however, could support unfair investigations, and other rules are needed to give witnesses themselves courtroom safeguards. Under the proposed rules, persons mentioned unfavorably in hearings would have a chance to enter sworn testimony in their own defense. Witnesses could also have active counsels with the right of objecting to questions and supporting these objections with arguments. Finally, and perhaps most important, witnesses would have twenty-four hours advance notice of the subject of the questions to be asked...
...wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo and insult across the courtroom while character witnesses culled from the bluebooks of two continents spoke up for one claimant or the other. Gloria herself sat through the trial sipping endless glasses of water and watching in bewilderment the storm that blew about her head. "All during that trial," she said later, "I kept saying...
...While he rakes in folding money at a "Free Angel Rally," Barney turns over the boy's actual defense to David Blake, a solemn young law pro fessor out for "practical experience," who is too trusting to know what Barney's left ist hand is doing. The courtroom play-by play takes up most of David's time, and far too much of the reader's. But after hours, David climbs into bed with Bar ney's erstwhile mistress and they reach "unbearable ecstasy" together. Though David does his best in court, community prejudice...
...Lewis, Witness for the Prosecution is frequently tense. And when it is not, it manages in the best English fashion to be entertainingly easygoing. In a generally good cast Patricia Jessel achieves some real acting as the enigmatic wife; and as defense lawyer, Francis Sullivan is full of delightful courtroom wiles and histrionics. All of Witness for the Prosecution is classically rendered, with no outré horrors or ultramodern gruesomeness, and with no need...