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...large, melancholy eyes, appeared. He seated himself in his high-backed chair. Then the solemn jury of four men and eight women, who had been deliberating for almost seven hours, filed into the jury box, and the clerk of the court faced the housewife in the chair of Juror No. 1. She stood up. "How say you?" the clerk asked...
...eleven Communist leaders have been on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, defense lawyers melodramatically moved for a mistrial. They charged that the pudgy, moonfaced man occupying seat No. 2 in the jury box had flagrantly violated his duty as a juror. At the very least, the defense added, the juror should be removed from the jury...
Carol's Diary. Juror No. 2 was Russell Janney, 64, Broadway producer, promoter and author of the bestselling The Miracle of the Bells. One of the steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...
Next day, Judge Medina denied the motion for mistrial and announced that garrulous Juror Janney would keep his seat. What was more, the judge added, he was fed up with the noisy Communist picket lines outside the courthouse and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on him by Communist sympathizers. "I will not be intimidated," he said...
Then came an embarrassing discovery. The Birmingham Post, a vigorous supporter of the inquiry, dug into the histories of the 18 new grand jurors and splashed its findings across Page One. One juror had been a Ku Kluxer himself. Another had served two years in prison for a felony, lost his citizenship rights. Five others, including the foreman, had police records for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from...