Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last winter, as the U.S. was slipping into recession, President Eisenhower described the whole thing as "a breather.'! Writing out a speech for delivery this week to the American Management Association in Manhattan, Ike noted that the rate of decline was slowing down, reported his verdict on the economy: "We have about caught our breath...
...need not have worried. The jurors found Betsy innocent-a decision that meant a 25? loss to Director Paul, who had bet that their verdict would be guilty...
...result is that many a televiewer firmly believes in the existence of Overlook, Verdict's fictitious small city (pop. 125,000), its malefactors and martyrs, its country club and Skid Row, the awful goings-on at the outlying Mountain View Inn. Recalls Director Paul: "One of our lawyers got a long-distance call from a Cleveland woman. She wanted to pay his poor client's legal...
...Guilty As Heck." When Verdict began last year, it was greeted with some of the rudest critical welcomes ever given a network show. THE VERDICT is DOUBTFUL, snidery headlined the New York Journal-American. "Mockery . . . phoniness . . , guilty as heck," snapped the New York Herald Tribune. Today Verdict easily outdraws its rivals on the most hotly contested hour of the day, has consistently batted among the top half dozen of all daytime shows...
...Verdict cannot afford star salaries, but many big-name actors ad-lib happily without riches, become convinced of the "truth" that they are relating. Last week Betsy von Furstenberg was on trial for shooting her "husband" on the pretext that she mistook him for a prowler. The prosecuting attorney, in real life Manhattan's Seventh District Assemblyman Daniel Kelly, had built up a damaging case against her. "It all looks very black for us, but wait until I take the stand!" she cried. Verdict's lawyers get just as engaged, lose their tempers in "court," on one occasion...