Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Lawyer Pomerantz did his best to convince the court that the Government had used, then destroyed or concealed data that would prove the whole case was based on inadmissible evidence, his fellow counsel, noisy little Archie Palmer, bounced around the courtroom in his familiar court jester's manner. "I don't know whether your unorthodox tactics are the result of contemptuous buffoonery or personal eccentricity," the judge finally exploded at one point, "but I want them stopped...
...face showed the strain of the 28 days of the first trial, of the 23 days so far of this one. The strain was also apparent in the frozen, drawn face of Priscilla, his wife, who sat behind the lawyers' cluttered tables in the small, hushed courtroom...
...Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors, he rides up to the 13th floor. Reporters, long since accustomed to his constant, faintly smiling presence, discuss him calmly within his hearing-in the elevator, in the corridor outside the courtroom, in Andre's restaurant near the old World Building. There the Hisses also go for lunch; the management keeps their table reserved...
Murray sat in court today while Cross outlined the story of Chambers' charges to Dr. Carl O. Binger '10, member of the College Overseers' Visiting Committee to the Social Relations Department. At Cross' suggestion, Murry left the courtroom during Binger's testimony...