Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Earl Browder has been in & out of enough courtrooms in his time to make him a pretty fair curbstone lawyer in his own right. When he went on trial in Washington a fortnight ago for contempt of Congress, he disdainfully brushed aside the aid of a court-appointed lawyer, argued his own defense and promptly put his finger on the soft point in the government's case...
After that, there was not much more the Government could do; its case had evaporated into thin air. Last week Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts threw it out of court and dismissed the jury. Said a blandly triumphant Earl Browder: "When demagogues fall out, honest men have a better opportunity to protect their liberties. Senator McCarthy, having driven the committee out on a limb, then proceeded...
...committee chiefly wanted to know about a four-page anti-Tydings tabloid which the Times-Herald had published to help Republican Candidate John Marshall Butler to victory. The tabloid ran a picture of an open-mouthed Communist Earl Browder standing close to Tydings, who was in a pose of thoughtful listening. The caption labeled the picture "composite" (i.e., two separate pictures pasted together), but at first glance it looked as if Tydings and Browder had actually posed together. The caption added that Tydings had said, "Oh, thank you, sir," after Browder's testimony in the Tydings committee...
...Arrowhead Springs, Calif., Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren, 17, youngest daughter of California's Governor Earl Warren, showed photographers how much she had progressed since her polio attack last year. After painful practice, she was able to take a few steps. The governor himself decided that some baths in the springs' mineral-rich mud were just the thing for the neuritis in his right...
Varsity basketball captain Ed Smith was given honorable mention for Collier's magazine's District All American team. On the first quintet from District 1--New England--were Jim Dilling and Earl Markey of Holy Cross and John Silk of Boston College. Princeton captain Mike Kearns gained honorable mention on the Mid-Atlantic squad, which listed no players from Greater New York...