The Press: Working Newswoman

The press box in the Los Angeles County Courthouse at times seemed like a Hollywood set. Recruited to provide reportorial bylines and sidelights on the murder trial of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his well-molded mistress, Carole Tregoff, both accused of slaying Finch's wife, were portly Producer Al (High School Confidential) Zugsmith, Novelist-Scenarist Irving (I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf) Shulman, Actresses Pamela (The Upturned Glass) Mason and Terry (Mighty Joe Young) Moore. Explained Terry Moore: "I'm doing it in preparation for a role in Girl on Death Row—and by the way, the girl...