Word: pye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the bench of Georgia's Fulton County superior court, Judge Durwood T. Pye keeps a hot eye on the Atlanta press. Last November, during a civil hearing, Judge Pye barred news photographers not only from the courthouse but from "adjacent sidewalks and streets" (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week Atlanta's two associated papers, the Constitution and the Journal, faced a far stiffer rap from Pye: a $20,000 fine for contempt of court...
...Judge Pye struck his blow in connection with the trial (for armed robbery) of a notorious Georgia felon named Harold James Meriwether. While the jury trial was in progress, both papers ran stories that dipped into Meriwether's extensive criminal past. This long-accepted U.S. newspaper practice was unacceptable to Judge Pye. He called the stories to the attention of Defense Counsel Frank Hester: "Have you read these accounts...
Burma. Three months after able General Ne Win took over the premiership and dismissed the Parliament, the capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced...
When the trial was over (Williams was acquitted), the Georgia Press Association and Atlanta Newspapers. Inc. brought suit challenging the constitutionality of Judge Pye's long reach. Said the Georgia Press Association, amid a statewide chorus of editorial indignation: "A usurpation of greater authority than was granted him by the public which placed him in office . . . Judge Pye's ruling, if literally interpreted. could apply to any home, street or sidewalk in the state of Georgia...
...Norman Collins, 51, author and TV executive who originally put up $7,000 of the $50,000 that launched ATV, now finds his shares worth $1,400,000. Sir Robert Renwick, industrialist and broker who invested $4,200, has shares worth $959,500, and Charles Orr Stanley, chairman of Pye radio and TV company, has seen his shares burgeon...