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...Other name playwrights have not made much news. You Touched Me!, by The Glass Menagerie's Tennessee Williams, is just a mild draw; The Next Half Hour, by Harvey's Mary Chase, did a fast fold. So did Irwin Shaw's The Assassin. Robert E. Sherwood's The Rugged Path (TiME, Nov. 19) can largely thank its star, Spencer Tracy, for so far being a box-office hit; it was panned as a play...
Setting the precedent for this policy was the American retention of Admiral Jean Darlan as chief of French Africa. Analyzing this policy in Africa, Irwin Shaw has written "The Assassin," denouncing not only the collaboration with Darlan but the sidestepping of recognition of the underground forces...
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of "The Assassin" is a lively portrayal of the title role by Frank Sundstrom. In a difficult part, Sundstrom, formerly Sweden's top-ranking actor, presents with charm and conviction the conflicting sentiments and ideologies of a quixotic young monarchist...
...spite of the excellence of both cast and play; in spite of Martin Gabel's direction and Boris Aronson's ingenious settings, "The Assassin" may not receive the acclaim it deserves on a musicomedy-packed Broadway...
When President James Garfield lay fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet at the White House in 1881, Vice President Chester Allen Arthur was dangerously ill. Had Arthur also died, there would have, been no immediately available successor to the White House. The next in line was the Senate's President pro tem, but Congress was not in session and had elected no such officer. As a result of this and other crises, Congress in 1886 passed a new Presidential Succession Act, making the Secretary of State next in line after the Vice President...