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After the demonstration was over, without a single flashbulb fired, the "judges" turned in a split decision. "Very smoothly done," said U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Herbert F. Goodrich. "Distracting a bit, but so is a pretty girl ... It [might] drive witnesses crazy." But another "judge," University of Michigan Law Professor Charles W. Joiner, found the picture-taking "did not distract in any way." He said he would be in favor of relaxing the Bar Association's canon forbidding photography in courtrooms provided that the photographers "do not try to tell the judge how to run his court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Demonstration & Duty | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Nixon told the audience that in 200 public appearances no one before Heavey had been rude enough to heckle while Nixon was on the air. The Secret Service men, charged by law with protecting the Vice President, had not stepped in until Heckler Heavey had picked up a used flashbulb and made a threatening gesture with it. At that point, Nixon's witnesses say, a posse of Secret Service men escorted Heavey outside, where he tripped on some television wires and fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Dog Story | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Jumped, in the House, when an amateur photographer set off a flashbulb in the gallery - in the same spot where Puer to Rican terrorists stood and fired on Congressmen just a month before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Presto Change | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Baby Bulb. General Electric introduced "the world's smallest" photographic flashbulb (1½ in. long, ¼ in. diameter), the M2, less than half the size of the company's midget No. 5 bulb. The new bulb is effective up to 15 feet, will be available next spring for 10?, or 3? less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Climax of the celebration was a midnight Mass in Rio's Municipal Stadium, jammed to nearly double capacity by the biggest turnout Rio could remember, topping even the most popular football game. Later, when a photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Pious Festival | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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