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...morning belittling Ford's medical experience and hinting that he had withheld some of Mrs. Borroto's remains from State experts. In answer to this last attack, the defense was forced to produce a three-foot vein from her exhumed body and show it to the jury during lunch recess...
...next week and the two days folowing spring recess have been set aside as "days of grace" during which any books may be returned with no questions asked...
...schedule has not been a help to Jordan. After the MIT opener came the Christmas recess; after the Brown match, when his squad was "high," came the exam period layoff. The coach must now go about building up enthusiasm and interest again...
...Campbell and Underwood had been hoping for. The case before Judge Nourse, involving a petition to recall Mayor Fletcher Bowron, was hardly sensational news. But the Her-Ex thought that there was an important principle at stake. Almost all Los Angeles courts permit photographs when the court is in recess. If Judge Nourse could jail Photographer Fowler for taking a picture, other judges, in really important cases, might follow suit. To keep the Her-Ex picture franchise, Aggie hustled five more reporters and photographers down to court while Campbell summoned the other Los Angeles papers to battle...
...when the court convened after the noon recess, lawyers from the Her-Ex and the four other newspapers were arrayed alongside Prisoner Fowler. Judge Nourse, having stuck his chin way out, pulled it back fast before the Her-Ex haymaker landed. Said he solemnly to Fowler: "The record shows I adjourned the court until 2 p.m. tomorrow. The court therefore was not in session at the time you took your photograph. I feel therefore that the order I made sentencing you and finding you in contempt of court was not properly made . . . You are released from custody and purged...