Law: Scottsboro Hero

Four young Negroes ran out of the courthouse in Decatur, Ala. at last week's end and ducked into waiting automobiles. Following them came the nation's current No. 1 criminal lawyer, smiling, muscular Samuel Simon Liebowitz, 43, who four years ago promised thousands of howling, cheering Negroes in Manhattan's dark Harlem: "We'll march those Scottsboro boys up Lenox Avenue."

Snarled an Alabama sheriff, "Why don't you get in there with your clients, you ?" Peering from a courthouse window, watching the motorcycle-escorted cars start on their dash for the Tennessee State line, was...

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