Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Justice. "This tribunal," said Presiding Magistrate Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.' " Nevertheless, Lucky had broken the law and must pay "a penalty of principle." Somberly the judge pronounced sentence: a fine of 60?. Borne from the courtroom in triumph on the shoulders of heftier companions, Lucky promised to win from the government formal permission to continue her Association Mutuelle...
...left off with the same hesitant direction, the overacting by bit-players (one blonde actress all but snapped her gum at the defense attorney), and the startled looks of other actors who unexpectedly find themselves on camera. The hour-long show attempts to simulate the drama of the courtroom, using real lawyers from the Illinois bar and having twelve members of the studio audience serve as jury. Sometimes the cases are interesting in themselves, and occasionally the lawyers achieve trenchant crossexamination. Mostly, though, the show is swamped in ineptitude...
Dissent. In Phoenix, Ariz., Judge Ralph Barry charged that Fred Q. Reed, angered by the court's community-property settlement between Reed and his former wife, followed him out of the courtroom, crumpled the judge's straw hat, kicked him in the seat of the pants...
...Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joseph D. Nunan Jr. settled a long-overdue bill the hard way. Nunan, onetime Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1944-47), listened in silence as Federal Judge Walter Bruchhausen sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary and fined him $15,000 for evading $91,086 in income taxes. In passing sentence-one of the stiffest ever handed down for tax evasion-Judge Bruchhausen took official cognizance of Joe Nunan's old position as top tax collector of the land. "The court does not overlook the fact that the defendant...
Last week, in a steaming, overcrowded Allegan courtroom, Dr. Small gave a rambling, weeping, shouting account of how it all happened. Edith, who seemed to relish the publicity, testified in his defense. After five hours of deliberation on the first-degree-murder charge against Dr. Small, the jury brought in its verdict: Not guilty, by reason of insanity. As soon as he can prove he is again rational, Dr. Small will go free...