Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leave 'em laughing, the old vaudevillian philosophy, is still the thing along the straw-hat circuit. Some situation comedies chosen for the closing weeks of summer productions...
...AVENGERS (ABC. 10-11 p.m) "The Man-Eater of Surrey Green" turns out to be a not so Jolly Green Giant with a brain that responds to special signals from the evil ones. It is up to John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel to short-circuit the operation...
Died. Fred W. Slater, 67, Chicago Circuit-Court judge, a 1921 University of Iowa star tackle and five-year pro for the Chicago Cardinals, who became one of the first Negroes elected a judge in Chicago, in 1960 presided over the murder trial of Danny Escobedo, ruling against a motion that the accused's confession be set aside because he had been denied counsel, a decision that led to the now historic U.S. Supreme Court reversal; of cancer; in Chicago...
After more than 13 years on Death Row-the longest such period in U.S. history-two convicted Negro rapists were ordered freed last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The court ruled that Edgar Labat, 43, and Clifton Alton Poret, 37, had been denied fair trial by the all-white jury system of Orleans Parish (then 32% Negro), which had never allowed a single Negro to serve on a criminal jury...
...bearded figure of Protestant, romantic, outgoing, Western America-and sticks him in a Jewish wedding in New Jersey. The ushers are all Ph.D.s in physics, and the guests, if they are not Jewish, pretend to be on grounds of intellectual prestige. The poet hero, doomed to an academic lecture circuit where he recites his now-hackneyed verses, is the husband of one and the official lover of two other voracious, intellectual Jewish women. On circuit, he tries to sleep with the prettiest girl to show up at his readings: he nurses the hope that one of them will restore...