Word: juror
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Clayton Hamilton, 64, playwright, critic, 16-time Pulitzer Prize juror, who swung the 1920 play award to Newcomer Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...bayonets and struggling bodies entitled The Trench, which looked like a great many he had done before. (His best-known Trench was painted in 1923.) Fat, fast-talking Old Master Diego Rivera, who can always be counted on for a surprise, was surprisingly absent. He had been appointed a juror, and resigned at the last minute because "too little attention is given to architecture. I believe architecture is the most important of all the plastic arts. And second, I think too much prominence is given to the older artists...
...jury understood, perfectly. In 38 minutes, Leo was free. Brooklyn justice had prevailed. Actually, the .verdict had been agreed on in five minutes. But, as one juror explained: "We wanted to have a smoke. We didn't want to rush into this thing blindly...
Charles Spencer Chaplin, 56, was adjudged (by 11-to-1 vote of a California jury) the legal father of auburn-haired Joan Berry's 18-months-old daughter, Carol Ann. One juror's reason: "Mr. Chaplin overacted on the witness stand when he turned toward us and tried to charm us." This windup of the two-year court battle satisfied nobody. The comedian remained unconvinced, and blood specialists back him up. His ex-protégée considered the $75 a week awarded her for Carol Ann's support "ridiculous"; she had asked...
...many used the protection of the Feme for their own ends. But such was its terror that less than 100 years ago scrolls sealed by the Feme could still be found in German archives. On the seals was written: "None may read unless he be a juror of the Feme"-and none had read...