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...mild-mannered New York and U.S. attorney who used antitrust laws to fight rackets and won more than 250 convictions from 1928 to 1938, investigated corruption in Brooklyn and exposed scores of gangland-tied policemen, judges, lawyers, and three assistant district attorneys, also served as counsel during the Nuremberg trials, then was a Truman appointee to the Federal Loyalty Review Board; of a perforated ulcer; in Manhattan...
...Broadway The Andersonville Trial. With overtones of Nuremberg, the play re-creates the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the camp for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. Playwright Saul Levitt ultimately fails to search out the moral issue he raises; but the courtroom battle, theatrically charged by Director Jose Ferrer, makes a better-than-average evening of theater...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Filmed biography of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's top accomplice. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who prosecuted Göring at the Nuremberg trials, will help out Narrator Walter Cronkite...
...frightening thing about the censorship of the Playhouse 90 drama, Judgment at Nuremberg, by the eliminating of reference to extermination in "gas oven" [April 27], lies not so much in the censorship as in the awful realization that the person or persons responsible for this idiocy can be and are employed in policymaking positions in a major American industry, and can and do make decisions of this kind...
...acting, the writing, the direction, just about everything on CBS's Playhouse go last week gave eloquent testimony to television's real potential. Judgment at Nuremberg was a bitterly moving reminder of Nazi Germany's era of evil-so moving, in fact, that for once the commercials supplied some necessary moments of relief. But they were also the source of some of the most naive censorship ever to be inflicted on a show...