Word: abel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prima donna. "This is a team game, not an individual game," he says, and he often passes off on a power play to Center Alex Delvecchio or Left-Wing Parker MacDonald. Last week Delvecchio topped all Red Wing scorers with 23 points; Howe had 22, MacDonald 20. Coach Sid Abel had no doubt about who was sparking the Red Wings. "As Howe goes, so we go," said Abel, "and we're going fine right...
...give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center piano), and bend the playgoer's ear without touching his heart or prickling his nerves. They all seem to be high on bootleg rhetoric...
Donovan came to public attention in 1957 as the defense lawyer for Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, who in the guise of a struggling artist had masterminded a Russian spy ring from a studio in Brooklyn. Donovan did not seek the task-it was assigned to him by the court on the recommendation of a Bar Association committee. But once he took it on, he defended Abel with skill and dedication. He carried the defense to the Supreme Court, succeeded in getting Abel a fairly gentle sentence of 30 years' imprisonment. "In my time on this court," said Chief Justice...
Donovan paid an uncomfortable price for defending Abel. Abusive calls poured in upon him. and he had his phone disconnected. His four children were jeered at by their schoolmates. His own friends teased him about being pro-Red. "You get rather tired of it," he said. "At a recent dinner, it was good for 20 minutes of needling for me to ask the waiter to bring Russian dressing for my shrimp...
...arguing against the death penalty in the Abel case, Donovan made the point that some time in the future "an American of equivalent rank" might be taken prisoner by the Communists, and it might be useful to the U.S. to work out an "exchange of prisoners." That plea proved to be prophetic: in Berlin early this year, the Kennedy Administration released Abel to the Russians in exchange for captured U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers (TIME, Feb. 16). Negotiator of the deal: James B. Donovan. As in the current negotiations with Fidel Castro, Donovan played a murkily ambiguous role...