THE FURNACE: Fancy lawyers and backwoodsmen shed their jackets in a courthouse averaging 100 degrees. Bryan confers with a
colleague at left. Outside on the lawns, thousands listened on loudspeakers. Some 150 pressmen came, and with them the Bryan-baiter
H. L. Mencken and a new breed of broadcasters from WGN in Chicago. They made it the first-ever trial carried by radio. Mencken mocked
the locals as ignorant boobs, which rattled them not at all: they made a small fortune on the trial he helped publicize.
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