Word: leibowitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Inventory (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-TV), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's survey of U.S. economic and social problems, opened with an impressive cast -Singer Gladys Swarthout, General Motors' Charles F. Kettering, Judge Samuel Leibowitz, Baseball's Jackie Robinson, ex-Budapest-Prisoner Robert Vogeler-none of whom seemed at ease with a pompous script...
...last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
...Senatore, at 20, product of the teeming tenements and slums, is what people mean by the phrase "juvenile delinquent." In a quiet Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joe tried to tell why he and his buddies talked tough, acted tough and got tough inside. Judge Samuel Leibowitz had asked Joe, leader of a South Brooklyn gang, if he had anything to say before sentence was passed on a buddy, Anthony
Look, Judge. Joe stood up, chewing a wad of gum nervously, but he looked directly at Judge Leibowitz. He talked out of the side of his mouth, and his words came hard and fast. "Look, judge," he said, "sending him to jail isn't going to correct conditions . . . What do you want us to do? It wasn't his fault. Not any more than it was ours. It was an accident." Joe paused, and there was a note of bitterness in his voice. "And you're not going to reform him by sending him to jail...
...Judge Leibowitz, already determined to defer Scarpati's sentence for further study, slowly turned to the jury. "There you have it, gentlemen-unrehearsed, unexpected, but with a thousandfold greater force than if you had read it in some professor's book . . ." He looked down at Joe Senatore. "I agree with you one hundred percent. But what do you think the court should do in this case...