Word: stewart
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Judge Potter Stewart, recently appointed to the Supreme Court, agreed in his opinion that some "impairment of this First Amendment freedom" was involved in the citation. He declined, however, to honor the plea of journalistic privilege, on the grounds that it was not incorporated in the common law, and could only be assured by legislation...
...Judge Stewart determined, solely on the merits of the case, that Miss Torre's refusal was harmful to Miss Garland in her pursuit of justice. Agreeing that freedom of the press was basic in a democracy, Judge Stewart added, "But basic, too, are courts of justice, armed with the power to discover truth." Few would deny his logic, and he was quick to qualify it: "It is to be noted that we are not dealing here with the use of judicial process to force a wholesale disclosure of a newspaper's confidential sources of news... The question asked...
...kicked up a squabble along producers' row. The tiger so clearly deserves top billing. While all the two-legged characters wade around uncertainly in one another's shallow psyches, the purposeful tabby chews up half the population of India (although only two on-camera) and chops Actor Stewart Granger to bits. Prowling through the hill country of southern India, Cameraman Harry Gillan has brought back some startling footage on a real cool...
Judge Potter Stewart, 43, who as chairman of the Yale Daily News in 1936-37 had his own college-day brushes with reporting, wrote the decision. He acknowledged that "compulsory disclosure of a journalist's confidential sources may entail an abridgment of press freedom by imposing some limitation upon the availability of news." But "the duty of a witness to testify in a court of law has roots as deep as the guarantee of a free press," which justifies "some impairment" of the First Amendment (on press freedom...
...Stewart is the brother of Zeph Stewart, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Adams House, who is currently on leave...