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Three men are responsible for the very considerable joys of the Phoenix Theatre production of School for Wives at the Wilbur. In no particular order they are: Richard Wilbur, Brian Bedford, and Moliere. Each has his own contribution toward making this a funny, fresh, and wise play, rich in the kind of timeless laughter that characterizes comedy at its best...
...Brian Bedford won a Tony for his role as Arnolphe, the schemer who dreads being cuckolded above all things, and he deserves it. He dominates the play. He's on stage practically every moment, plotting, soliloquizing, raging, whining. He has a squinting, toothy, obviously insincere smile that he must use two dozen times in the course of the play, and each time it brings a laugh. To express surprise his mouth opens into a huge rectangle and stays there for seconds. When he is in pain or sorrow, he screws up his entire face so that...
...called as a witness late in the week. After four years on the force, Droge left the department earlier this year to continue his education at the University of Southern California. He testified that of the 70 patrolmen he had known at the 80th precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, only two were not on the take. Despite the fact that Droge won eight citations, he casually accepted payoffs in cash or weapons. Gamblers would throw a roll of bills through a window into the back seat of his radio car, though once their aim was too good...
Until it exploded in 1965, Watts was America's most under-publicized slum. Largely this lack of notice stemmed from the fact that Watts does not strike the eye in the same way that Bedford-Stuyvesant, Columbia Point, or Hough does. Absent is the visual oppressiveness of old six-story run-downs, crumbling brownstone block houses, and the vertical caskets of towering, post-war housing projects. If one is not paying attention, it's possible and perhaps even easy to drive from nearby Inglewood across Watts to South Gate or above on the Harbor Freeway without sensing that the community...
...journalists by grand juries and congressional committees. He will watch closely how the Supreme Court rules on three pending subpoena cases in which the Justice Department is seeking to force reporters to reveal confidential sources for stories. Times Reporter Earl Caldwell and Newsman Paul Pappas of WTEV in New Bedford, Mass., refused to discuss Black Panther activities for grand juries, and Reporter Paul Branzburg of the Louisville Courier-Journal balked at identifying, for yet another grand jury, marijuana and hashish peddlers he had interviewed for a story on drugs...