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House as an institution. "The House is the greatest jury on earth," says Sam Rayburn. In his capacity as chief juror, he soon decided that Wilbur Mills was a real comer. He brought Mills along, got him elected to Ways & Means in 1942, saw him become chairman last year...
...package into the courtroom. It was wrapped in butcher's paper, tied with twine. Throughout the trial, the jury stared in horrified fascination at the package. Finally, near the end of the trial, Showman Belli slowly and deliberately opened the package-and handed the contents to a startled juror. It was an artificial leg, of the sort the plaintiff would have to wear for the rest of her life. The jury returned an award...
Hear No Evil. In Topeka, Kans., when Federal District Judge Arthur Stanley told a witness to "speak up," a juror broke in to say: "It doesn't matter, your honor; I wasn't listening anyhow...
...could say. But instead of responsible action, the tragedy merely provoked the ugliest kind of recriminations. At the funeral, President Charles Silver of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen charged to newsmen that Principal Goldfarb had probably been driven to suicide because a grand juror had threatened that he might "be indicted." The jury's foreman immediately denied the accusation, countercharged that the suicide was the result of Goldfarb's fear that his superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating in the grand jury's inquiry. The grand jury, which had already...
...Between. Taken in its huge total, the show is more revealing of the plains and valleys than the mountain peaks of U.S. art, 1958. It suffers because many of the best refused to show with the crowd, but nevertheless it displays a competent level of workmanship. Said Juror Adolpb Gottlieb: "The show does constitute a cross section of contemporary American art, divided about fifty-fifty between abstraction and realism. It's good to have a big show, especially in New York. The worst and the best are excluded. What is hanging now is in the in-between level...