Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Begum reposed on a couch in the courtroom, the jury heard ten days of testimony blaming her for Bano's death. But last week the jurors, in 70 minutes, found the Begum guilty only of "causing grievous hurt." Her lawyer rose and made a further plea: Her Highness had already suffered grievously in mind, body and money; she should get some consideration from the court. The judge agreed. He fined the Begum 6,000 rupees ($1,830), and sentenced her to imprisonment "until the court rises." With that, the court rose, and the Begum was free. Muttering...
...good, workmanlike thriller, I Confess, is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock. Unlike his best movies, it is often verbal instead of visual. There is a talky courtroom trial and, unusual for Hitchcock, a soggily sentimental flashback depicting a romance between the priest before he entered the church and a girl (Anne Baxter) who later marries a member of the Quebec Parliament. In the leading role, Montgomery Clift frequently appears more deadpan than stoical. Most authentic touches: Karl Malden's portrait of a hard-working detective and some real Quebec backgrounds...
Washroom Beat. Forbidden the courtroom, more than 60 newsmen stood watch outside, pounced on everyone who came out the door. Even Columnist Winchell was on hand quipping that Judge Valente apparently thought "little girls should be obscene and not heard," and feeling right at home in what he called an atmosphere of "opened transoms and peepholes...
...drank heavily, recalled that she once tried to kill herself in the apartment of Martha Raye, a casual acquaintance, and said she had otherwise conducted herself in such a manner that she had "destroyed [herself] as a moral person ... we believe we proved she is without credibility." When the courtroom was quiet, papers got their stories elsewhere. Jelke, a somewhat overlooked man in the first days of the trial pushed back into the news by smashing his sky-blue Cadillac convertible into a truck while out driving with a "shapely blonde at 5:15 a.m." The New York Post...
...strongest argument they had was that the ban was a threat to both fair trials and press freedom. After one week of the ban, they also had a strong practical argument for reopening the trial in the gossip, rumor and biased information that had come out of the courtroom, unrestricted by the facts of a court transcript...