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...hero is Joe Chapin (Gary Cooper), leading citizen of "Gibbsville," a small town in Pennsylvania, "a gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...
...Delphi Museum there is a bronze statue of a charioteer made about 470 B.C. Jockeys don't seem to have changed much over the centuries-compare Chapin's Hartack with his ancient counterpart...
...sales rose 8.5% in 1956 v. an all-industry slide of 11%. The Rambler, on which Romney is betting heavily, has sold well through the first four months of fiscal 1957, when sales rose 40.8% to a record 23,183. To turn a profit, said Vice President Roy D. Chapin Jr., "a reasonable increase in sales is all we need. We believe we can see that increase coming if we hold fast to our objectives...
...Cancer of the Mind." Dr. Wertham made his most telling point when he banged his right hand repeatedly on the table, counting the 38 times that Chapin had stabbed the baby sitter and the 23 times he had stabbed the child. "Imagine doing this 38 times," he said. "He slaughtered this little girl, he stabbed her, then the little boy, and then went back and stabbed her again. He certainly acted like a madman that night." To Wertham there was no doubt that Chapin had suffered, at the time of the crime, from schizophrenia -"a malignant disease, the cancer...
...Wertham's say-so, three members of the council reversed themselves and the body voted, 6-3, for commutation. Concluded Wertham: to electrocute Chapin would have been no deterrent to others because "it was a crazy crime and no juvenile on the street associates himself with this...