Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Bill Knowland did not realize was the essential infirmity of his "sure" votes. A handful of moderates in both parties-enough to swing the scales-still had serious doubts over the complex legal problem of jury trials in contempt cases. Massachusetts' Democrat Jack Kennedy had asked four Harvard law professors whether the concept of jury trials in criminal contempt cases was sound or not, received an unhelpful 2-2 reply...
...last yea had been shouted, Knowland's justice had been denied. Voting for the jury-trial amendment were 39 Democrats and twelve Republicans, voting against were 33 Republicans and nine Democrats. To Knowland's chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson and Warren Magnuson, such Republicans as Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, Indiana's Homer Capehart, and West Virginia's Chappie Revercomb...
Though no match for the 1951 crime investigations and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, the labor hearings provided compelling, real-life drama in which well-scrubbed Bob Kennedy, the committee's chief counsel, emerged as TV's newest matinee idol. Older Brother Jack, member of the committee, made a winning supporting character. "Just Plain Bill" was Committee Boss John McClellan, who scowled formidably behind his plain-as-rain, legalistic rumblings. Before them paraded a motley collection of sullen ex-Communists, pudgy labor pariahs and Vitalis-smooth lawyers. Unlike Mobster Frank ("Hands") Costello, this year's gallery...
...production that opened yesterday at the American Shakespeare Festival is controversial with a vengeance, for co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have changed Shakespeare's old Sicilian locale to 19th-century Spanish-American Texas. (This is not a wholly new idea, for the Brattle Theatre production here two summers ago was laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican...
Melville Cooper, Jack Hollander and Guy Sorel have the proper slickness for the evil president, prospector and baron. The large number of supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...