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Lyons was brought before Judge John C. Knox at the request of Emanuel Bloch, attorney for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atom spies sentenced to death (TIME, April 16). The Government, said Bloch, was conspiring to break down Mrs. Rosenberg and get a "false" confession from her -and Columnist Lyons was part of the conspiracy. The reason Bloch thought so was that since February (shortly before their trial) no less than 20 "leaks" on the case had appeared in "The Lyons Den," syndicated in 102 papers. Sample item: "If [the convicted Rosenbergs] talk, they still can save themselves . . ." Attorney Bloch wanted...
This week, when Lyons reappeared in court, he was no longer his own counsel. His new advocate: the Kefauver Committee's Rudolph Halley. Nevertheless Judge Knox ruled that news sources are not privileged; the judge would decide later whether Lyons' items are relevant. If so, Lyons will have to name his sources or be charged with contempt...
...priest in the Anglican Church, I feel it a duty to correct several false impressions that arise from your article . . . The Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill is not "the No. 1 Protestant churchman in the U.S." He is an Archbishop in the Holy Catholic Church...
...from criminals to cast a skeptical glance at the Government's stock of gold, wanted to know how much there was and if anyone kept a weight check to see that none was stolen. The Senator, replied the Treasury Department pleasantly, could have "a personal tour" of Fort Knox any time he wished...
...Henry Knox Sherrill was born 60 years ago in Brooklyn. His businessman father died when he was ten, and his devoutly Episcopalian mother kept him close to the church. "Hank" Sherrill went to boarding school at Hotchkiss and then, at 16, to Yale. By his junior year, he had decided to enter the ministry. One of Sherril's greatest influences at Yale, as well as throughout his life, was Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, one of America's most unity-minded churchmen...