Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked the Tribune's columnist, Marie Torre, to identify her source. Miss Torre refused in a pre-trial examination and later when called upon to do so by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who thereupon cited her for contempt of court and sentenced her to ten days in jail. On appeal, the case went to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently upheld Judge Ryan's decision. Indications are that the Supreme Court will now be asked to rule on the questions raised in the two decisions...
...blow to newsgatherers who rely so often on information from undisclosed and undisclosable sources was a severe one. If a source can no longer rely on his anonymity--and there are contempt citations stiffer than ten days in jail--he is likely to refuse to talk. Unidentified sources are often vital to the coverage of governmental affairs. In an era of bureaucratic hush-hush the anonymous tipster has become a must for responsible reporters. To close his mouth is, in many cases, to deny the public valuable and necessary information...
...charges of unlawfully assuming academic titles. While all Germany guffawed at the hoax pulled on the new German army, the state prosecutor indignantly stated that the accused was plain Robert Schneider, 39, a house painter, carpet beater and handyman from Vienna who had already served time in an Austrian jail for earlier forgeries...
...hardly an idiot, even though his humor springs out of and depends on idiocy. Last week Winters displayed his loony magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx. "As long as someone laughs," says a friend, "Johnny is on. And someone is always laughing." Johnny was "on" the night he toured Manhattan bistros with an empty hand grenade (pulling the pin, he would...
Trib will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court upholds the ruling, and Reporter Torre remains mum, she wili go to jail for ten days-and many a source for many a story that needs to be told will henceforth...