Word: courtroom
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...letters, whispered warnings and preposterous melodramatics. Nevertheless, the opera does convey tremendous theatrical excitement and a sharp sense of the great revolutionary ideal that turned into vulgar tyranny. Particularly rousing in the Met's otherwise conventional staging: the trial scene, with a vicious mob of women in the courtroom bleachers demanding Chénier's blood...
...years. Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., who has been trying to jack up his ailing chain, saw the trial as a rare opportunity. He ordered a task force dispatched to Cleveland, led by Sob Sister Dorothy Kilgallen (TIME, Nov. 15), Handyman Bob Considine and Cartoonist Burris Jenkins Jr. (for courtroom sketches). Scripps-Howard followed suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would not have been allowed." Even the conservative New York Herald Tribune sent...
...been disappointing. Reporters tried to pep it up by calling Dr. Sam "the Romeo of the rubbing table," got their doctors mixed by describing his extramarital girl friend, Susan Hayes, as the "orthopedic wench." "For an osteopath," commented the New York Post on Dr. Sam's calm courtroom demeanor, "he hardly moved a muscle." Headlines promised BOMBSHELL DUE AT TRIAL TODAY and NEW SHEPPARD SEX ANGLE HINTED. But no bombs burst, no angles materialized...
...Enough Holler. To stave off courtroom boredom, newsmen covered each other. A columnist for the Cleveland Press, which is devoting at least two full pages a day to the trial, reported that Scripps-Howard Correspondent Andrew Tully, wheezing and coughing with a cold, made such a racket that Dr. Sam's brother, Stephen, turned to him in annoyance and said: "Drop dead." Replied Tully: "I can't. I've got to stay around for the hanging...
ABOVE the entrance to the Sterling Law Buildings at Yale, there are two panels of bas relief. One shows a medieval classroom with the professor asleep; the other pictures an ancient courtroom with the judge asleep...