Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reversing Samuel Sheppard's murder conviction last June, the Supreme Court suggested that the bar and the police should button their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public's right to know" and foster "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from press scrutiny. Fueling the fuss is the fact that the U.S. Judicial Conference, which recommends rules for federal courts, will soon weigh possible crime-news curbs that might later be adopted by state courts...
...SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "PORGY AND BESS" (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), with Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another gift, this time Hal Holbrook re-creating Samuel Clemens with the same warmth and understanding as he did on Broadway...
...Died. Samuel Briskman, 70, a onetime Manhattan textile merchant who in 1931, while tinkering with two bread knives, devised a saw-toothed scissors that kept fabrics from unraveling by cutting a zigzag line, thereby earning himself a fortune in the manufacture of what became known as pinking shears; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach...
Should our sense of outrage forever be sacrificed at the altar of money, necessity, and patriotism -- that "last refuge of the scoundrel," as Samuel Johnson...