Word: myron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey Supreme Court upheld criminal contempt charges against Myron Farber and The New York Times, rejecting arguments that the first amendment allows a reporter to shield notes and confidential sources. The right of the defendant in the murder case, Dr. Philip Jascelevich, to subpoena testimony in his defense overrides Farber's rights of confidentiality, the court said...
...first night in France, Charles Lindbergh had to borrow a pair of the distinguished U.S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick's pajamas. We Herricks are very proud to have those famous pajamas hanging on our family tree...
...mighty New York Times has been a melancholy place: its presses stopped by a strike, its newsroom empty; one of its reporters, Myron Farber, yo-yoing between jail cell and court hearings on contempt charges; the paper itself hit by a $100,000 fine for contempt and a $5,000-a-day fine for every day it continued to defy a New Jersey court in the same Farber case. To top it all off, in its legal difficulties, the Times seemed to be losing public support and press sympathy-partly because of "terrible coverage," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper...
When New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, 40, was tossed into a New Jersey jail two and a half weeks ago for refusing to give his notes to a trial judge, the issue seemed reasonably clear-cut. As of last week, it proved to be anything...
Such arguments seemed to cut little ice with Trautwein. "The case is being tried; a man is charged with murder . . . You still say Myron Farber should be the judge," said Trautwein indignantly. All he was asking, the judge continued, was "to let us take a little peek." So impatient was Trautwein to punish Farber, 40, and the Times that he began handing down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences...