Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christie) is Broadway's first really bright evening of crime since Dial "M" for Murder. In an age of dwindling stage whodunits (there aren't even many bad ones), the expert Miss Christie has fetched up another of her tidy yarns, tossed in a finely conducted English courtroom trial, and has then, when all is over, overturned it all with not one shattering twist but three...
...What we say and do here will be heard in all the states of the Union," cried white-haired Defense Attorney William J. Corrigan. Day after day, some 50 reporters crowded into a stuffy Cleveland courtroom to cover the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, on trial for the murder of his pretty, pregnant wife, Marilyn. Last week, after 30-odd long and often tedious trial days, the prosecution closed with a dramatic scene, the testimony of Sam's former mistress, Susan Hayes...
Into a hushed and crowded Chicago courtroom one morning last week strode white-haired Federal Judge Walter J. La Buy. For almost a year, he had been studying the 2,500 exhibits and 2,500,000 words of testimony and argument in the biggest antitrust case in history: the Government's suit to force the Du Pont company to sell its holdings in General Motors and the members of the Du Pont family to sell their stock in U.S. Rubber (TIME, July...
Harry Shulman, Dean of the Yale Law School, has been appointed as the Oliver Wendell Holmes lecturer of the Harvard Law School for 1955. Shulman will deliver one lecture, "Reason, Contract, and Law in Labor Relations" Feb. 9, in the James Burr Ames courtroom...
...fanatic Moslem Brotherhood used to be the terror of Egypt; it murdered two Premiers and a police chief, and created shivers of concern among British commanders in the Canal Zone. But last week in a small, second-floor Cairo courtroom, ordinary Egyptians openly laughed at the Brotherhood as, one by one, its high dignitaries, shorn of their imposing beards, shambled forward to stammer confessions and recriminations like so many cringing schoolboys. The occasion: the trial of the Brotherhood leaders accused of attempting to assassinate Premier