Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three chapters of a projected second novel, submit it to the victim through a go-between, and cheerfully agree to suppress it for a price. After World War I, Blackmailer Crome ruefully relates, the British upper classes lost their manners as well as their money, and his brand of crime no longer paid...
...goes out to dinner with her customers but sees to it that she goes home alone, who is engaged to a married man, who suffers scandal without sin when another married man dies of a heart attack in her room, who inherits most of his money in his brand-new, last-minute will, who has to fight for the money in court, who wins it only to learn that it belongs to the Government in back taxes, and who then finds that the wealthy opposition lawyer is a suitor for her hand...
...Kabuki company plans to entertain New York for four weeks, move on to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, then to Europe. Sticklers for authenticity, the dancers brought their own cypress stage with them. This week, as is the custom when a brand-new stage is used, an official of the company consecrated it and invoked traditional Kabuki blessings-before any union stagehand was allowed to lay a hand...
...last year and a half, when thousands of convicts in 35 prisons revolted, sometimes seized guards as hostages, and demanded better food and living conditions. That is what happens in Cell Block 11 of the unidentified prison in question. The convicts, led by a long-termer (Neville Brand), present their demands to a state mediator. He arrogantly rejects them. The riot explodes into other cell blocks. The prisoners run berserk in a thoroughly frightening scene of rage in the mass. In the end, the governor signs the prisoners' petition. The rioters disband. The pressure off, the state legislature repudiates...
...midst of the fight over the Bricker amendment last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) came a brand-new proposal. It rejected Bricker's plan because it did not go to the "root of the problem," suggested instead an amendment to the Constitution that could force the President to resign from office if Congress disapproved (by a two-thirds majority) any agreement he signed with a foreign power. Then Congress would elect a new President. The suggestion might have been considered harebrained had it not come from the most widely syndicated political pundit in the U.S. The pundit: Columnist David Lawrence...