Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo's whole odd story was stranger than the tortuous trail which led him from a Japanese prison camp on Corregidor to a federal courtroom in New York's Foley Square, where he sat on trial last week for treason during wartime (maximum penalty: death...
Powers of Darkness. In Raleigh, N.C., just before two married couples went on trial for drunkenness and assaulting a cop, a friend of theirs went through the courtroom sprinkling yellowish "conjure powder" around the judge's chair and along the jury box, later rejoiced over a hung jury...
...into Pierre. Her small son Matthieu promptly burst into tears. She took him down to the concierge. Then she went upstairs, planning once again to kill herself. As she thought of Matthieu and another, elder son, her arm went limp and-bang-there went another slug into Pierre. The courtroom sighed in sympathy...
...Much Promise. The courtroom hissed, however, when slight, shifty Roger Perreau, husband of Pierre's light-of-love, testified that he had refused to interfere with his wife's affair with Pierre because "I didn't want any fuss or scandal." It froze into stony silence when redhaired, creamy-skinned Jeanne Perreau herself announced: "I have a husband who is a good companion. I intend to stay with him. Pierre Chevallier loved me. I loved him. For love, one is never punished...
Outside the courtroom, thousands of bright-eyed housewives stood waiting in a drizzle of rain. When the verdict was announced, they broke into an ear-splitting cheer. "Bravo, Yvonne! Bravo!" The drenching rain trickled down their husbands' coat collars, and the husbands of France shivered...