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When newsmen were barred from the Manhattan vice trial of Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke (TIME, Feb. 16 et seq.), five dailies and two press services appealed the ruling of Trial Judge Francis L. Valente. Last week the New York supreme court's appellate division, in a 3-to-2 decision, slapped down the publishers on the ground that "freedom of the press is not involved." Said the majority: there is no "right of every citizen to be a spectator" at a trial. Public trials are only to protect "the civil rights of the individual" (defendant), and third parties...
...Manhattan, some of the harsher facts of life finally caught up with 23-year-old Playboy Minot F. Jelke. Flexing his jaw muscles nervously, "Mickey" Jelke, pudgy heir to an oleomargarine fortune, last week heard a blue-ribbon jury pronounce him guilty of enticing 19-year-old Model Pat Ward into a life of high-priced prostitution, and of attempting to duplicate this success with onetime Hatcheck Girl Marguerite Cordova...
...barring reporters from the trial of Minot ("Mickey") Jelke III, on charges of being a pimp, Manhattan Judge Francis Valente apparently expected to keep testimony from the sensational vice case out of the newspapers. The trial had not gone two days before Judge Valente had an ample opportunity to see how wrong he was in practice, if not in law. Elaborately shrouded in secrecy, the trial took on an importance it might never have had in open court. In Louisville, a panel of clergymen on radio debated whether the press should be allowed to cover the trial, decided that...
...case of Minot ("Mickey") Jelke III, 23, newsmen from papers all over the world had a story made for them. Jelke, a socialite heir to a multimillion dollar fortune, was accused of managing a circle of glamorous prostitutes who operated in Manhattan's glossiest nightspots and, for that matter, around the world (TIME, Feb. 2). This week, as the press warmed up for the first headline-making days of the trial, reporters got an unexpected and bitter piece of news...