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Most of the New Guard of Seventh Avenue designers, however, swing right along with Rudi. "I have never enjoyed designing more," exclaims Chester Weinberg, 37, who has been on his own for barely a year and a half long enough to pick up the patronage of such Manhattan pacesetters as Best-Dressed Amanda Burden, Pop Art Promoter Ethel Scull and Anne Ford Uzielli. Says Weinberg: "This youth movement is just right for me." Although he experimented with mid-calf midis for his evening clothes, for day-time he kept his dresses short, made them pretty, with lots of ruffles...
Celluloid courtroom dramas often come to an end with the guilty person breaking down in the witness box and giving himself away while the judge looks on. It rarely happens that way in real life. But the pressures of the courtroom are great, and last week in Manhattan Harold Weinberg found them overwhelming...
...Weinberg confessed to murdering Greenwich Village Poet-Novelist Maxwell Bodenheim and Bodenheim's wife. A former mental patient, he appeared in court for arraignment on the charges and began singing The Star-Spangled Banner. "Are you a Communist?" he asked the magistrate. Minutes later he interrupted his court-appointed lawyer and began pounding his desk. "I need some big-shot attorney who believes in the American flag. I don't want any lawyer. I'm for the public. The public is for me. I'm normal." His outburst made his condition clear. He was declared unfit...
...capable of standing trial. He was sent to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital where other psychiatrists agreed. The only hitch was that in the years since 1954, confessions obtained without informing the accused of his right to silence and a lawyer were declared inadmissible by the U.S. Supreme Court. Weinberg's confession did not meet the requirements, and the prosecution had little other evidence against him. Whether they knew it or not, the psychiatrists were freeing him. All Weinberg had to do was hang on to his mental balance until a pro forma hearing made his release official...
...incoherently. "Nobody say anything in this court. I do all the talking." Pointing at his lawyer, he said, "He killed Maxwell Bodenheim. I saw him. Send him to Matteawan for the rest of his life." Justice George Carney finally said, "Take him out." As the door closed behind him, Weinberg screamed, "Don't send me back to Matteawan, please, your honor." Said Justice Carney: "I hope he will be given a more careful examination this time...