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...defense was led by tireless, flamboyant Manhattan Trial Lawyer Emile Zola Berman,* 53, a World War II Army Air Force intelligence officer (Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star), who took the case without pay, on the urging of a committee of New York lawyers and judges that rallied to help McKeon. Berman, with his three civilian and three military aides, set about trying to prove that training marches into Parris Island tidal swamps were common practice-and that the toughness and spirit of the Marine Corps are based on such disciplinary techniques. "Sergeant McKeon," rasped Berman in his nerve-pinching voice...
...week's end the legal foundations were barely laid. Yet a curious change of attitude had already rolled over most of the 50-odd correspondents who crowded into Parris Island to report the trial. Thanks partly to the shrewd showmanship of Emile Zola Berman, but thanks mostly to the cool, silent, uncomplaining demeanor of Matthew McKeon, those who had come to see the sergeant strung up for what he had done began, instead, to sense that this man was another argument. It was an argument that went to the roots of the Marine Corps, that involved not only...
Also, Harold R. Scholnick of Leverett and Brighton; Frederic A. Sharf of Kirkland and Chestnut Hill; Stephen B. Shohet of Leverett and Boston; Edgar G. Ward of Winthrop and Dedham; Kenneth G. Wilson of Lowell and Concord; and Irving K. Zola of Dudley and Mattapan...
...such celebrated patrons as Authors Guy de Maupassant and Emile Zola, Composer Jules Massenet and Ballet Impresario Sergei Diaghilev who created the Paris legend: "Sit long enough in the Café de la Paix and you will see everyone worth seeing." During World War II, the restaurant served General De Gaulle his first meal in liberated Paris. In 1945, after it had stalled the Germans' best efforts to turn it into an officers' club, the Café de la Paix was about to be commandeered for U.S. officers when a worldly U.S. colonel put his foot down. "Requisition...
...rank and yells "I'm innocent," at the top of his lungs, the picture seems almost embarassing. The fault here is that of Fritz Kortner, who plays Dreyfus. His acting style is so restrained that he just does not register any sort of emotion. Heinrich George, as Zola, has the same trouble; his performance consists almost entirely of grunts and a flood of impassioned but unconvincing oratory. Only one actor, the great German performer Albert Basserman, manages to bring his character to life. In the role of an officer who believes in Dreyfus' innoccence, he plays with a dignity that...