Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Things First. In Oneonta, Ala., the Blount County grand jury held its half-yearly meeting, made only one recommendation: that a better place be provided for the grand jury to meet in. In Norwich, England, a jury retired to consider its verdict, filed back into the courtroom 40 minutes later and asked...
Lawyer Murphy, already famed as the federal prosecutor of the Hiss case, not only stands a reassuring 6 ft. 4 in. and weighs an impressive 245 Ibs., but is equipped with a luxuriant mustache. As a prosecutor in the courtroom, he invariably conjured up the image of a Victorian guardsman. Eyeing his new photographs, it was almost impossible not to visualize him in an old-fashioned cop's helmet, or to picture him as an honest bartender, white apron, gold watch chain and all, stepping out of the gaslit past, with a bung starter in one meaty hand...
Dean Griswold will adress an orientation meeting of first year men at the Law School at 4 p.m. today in the Langdell Courtroom. Griswold will introduce administrative officers of the school and the heads of the leading school activities...
...Chambers. Using only the court records and documents, and the evidence of his own eyes & ears as a reporter of the trials, Author Cooke has succeeded in the difficult twin task of fairly boiling down the thousands of pages of testimony while vividly restoring the sometimes dramatic, often boring, courtroom scene. Cooke never forgets that he has set out to be a reporter and not a judge; as one result, his book induces in the reader some of the tension that must have gripped the jury...
Quite apart from the importance of its subject, Generation is remarkably good reading. Every courtroom character from the principals to the least consequential witness comes sharply alive...