“…Our whole reasoning on the problem of crime and criminals, of law enforcement, of police and even of penitentiaries, is completely cockeyed.
We can discuss the matter in terms of dollars and cents, but primarily crime isn’t an economic problem. It’s a problem that strikes at the character of the nation. The more we permit crime the more we are letting character become corrupted, the more we are encouraging dangerous thinking, and the more we are sacrificing potential future good citizens to the forces of contamination and degradation which turn them from potential assets into moral and economic liabilities.
It is time we woke up.” (from Erle Stanley Gardner''s 'The Court of Last Resort: the true story of a team of crime experts who fought to save the wrongfully convicted')
शाळेत असताना पेरी मेसन (अर्ल स्टॅनली गार्डनर) यांचे मिळेल ते पुस्तक मिरज येथील मंगल टॉकीज जवळच्या संगम(?) वाचनालयातून मिळवून किमान दोनदा तरी वाचले आहे.
त्या पेरी मेसन यांना २०२३ साली ९० वर्षे प्रसिद्धीला येऊन पूर्ण झाली.
Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Della Street (Barbara Hale)