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Died. Elmer Francis ("Trigger") Burke, 40, scrawny gangland executioner, suspected of at least seven murders, convicted (Dec. 16, 1955) of one (his boyhood friend, Longshoreman Edward Walsh, in a 1952 barroom quarrel); by electrocution; in Sing Sing prison. Born in Manhattan's squalid Hell's Kitchen, Killer Burke served his first stretch in 1941 (for breaking and entering), soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs...
Like his earlier plays, The Dark echoes twih Inge's boyhood days: "I seem to return to the Midwest not only because I know it, but because I find the regional speech more lyrical and familiar. My mother, who was part Scot, part Irish, had lovely, melodic speech. I find myself going back to the melody of her voice and to others I remember. I've lived in New York for eight years, but so far, I've been afraid tackle the speech patterns of the city...
Graffman, Istomin and Fleisher share remarkably similar backgrounds, musical tastes and careers (Lateiner has not yet performed as widely as the other three). Like Graffman, both Istomin, 31, and Fleisher, 29, are the sons of Russian-born parents. Brooklyn-born Eugene Istomin abandoned a boyhood ambition to play for the Dodgers (he served as their water boy during one spring training) in favor of a scholarship at Curtis, where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium...
...Story (TIME, Aug. ig), which has a grip on the No. 1 nonfiction spot of national bestseller lists. The first half of Mr. Baruch (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for December) is a blurred carbon copy of Baruch's own book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit labored with Baruch's blessing amid the "huge chaotic mass" of his papers, but they parted company in 1955 over questions of "interpretation." Her interpretation of Baruch's role as elder statesman is, in effect, that Baruch preferred to wield power...
...Robert Ruark's columns a few years ago foreshadowed The Old Man and the Boy. With this book, 41-year-old Author Ruark (Something of Value) deserts Mau-Mau country for magnolia land. He has written a boozy-bucolic picture postcard reminiscence of his North Carolina boyhood. In Author Ruark's memory-misted eyes the Old Man (Ned Hall) is a cross between Thoreau and Natty Bumppo, and the Boy (Robert Chester Ruark Jr.) a blend of Huck Finn and Hemingway's Nick Adams. Less affected readers may feel that they are merely reading the diary...