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...WILL DO by Richard Condon. 31 1 pages. Random House...
While there is meticulous method in Francis Vollmer's madness, there is not nearly enough madness in the narrative methods of Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate). What the author intends is a black comedy on the peril of an obsessive delusion; what he achieves is a hybrid between bedroom-comedy pink and olive-drab boredom...
JACK TEAGARDEN (RCA Victor Vintage Series). Buzzy echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz era are the seven tracks recorded in 1928-29, along with some later tunes that show the talented trombonist dipping into the bop of the mid-'40s. The sides, featuring Fats Waller, Eddie Condon and Louis Armstrong, are reissued in medium-high fidelity and extra-high vitality. If you like echoes...
...transit workers' strike that crip pled Manhattan last month was clearly illegal. And the Transit Authority's will ingness to end the walkout by agreeing to pay an estimated $60 million in wage boosts and fringe benefits was hardly more correct. New York's tough Condon-Wadlin Act not only forbids strikes by public employees but prohibits pay raises to strikers for three years after they go back to work. Still, most New Yorkers - from Mayor John Lindsay to the harried commuters - were willing to forgive and forget...
Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...