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The cast at the Loeb is almost uniformly excellent; no performance is worse than good. The scene is set skillfully at the onset by a London street singer (Scott Taylor), who tells of Mac the Knife, a ruthless, but versatile killer, robber, and rapist with an ability bordering enchantment to...
Fulbright was a country boy who made it to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,* and some of his colleagues regard him as an aloof and self-righteous man who never got over the experience. (President Truman once called him "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b.") As time went by, Fulbright grew to...
He was a courtly, imposing figure, given to Olympian judgments. A longtime associate characterized him as "something of a grandee." Nearly everyone called him Mr. Krock. During 66 years as a journalist, Arthur Krock was the confidant-and quite often the prickly conscience-of the select and powerful in Washington...
One reason for Wilson's visceral response may be that the alleged organizers of the transaction are a pair of high-powered, hard-to-approach Wilson associates whose closeness to the Prime Minister had inspired resentment even before they made the headlines. One of them is Mining Consultant Anthony...
JOHN MITCHELL, 60. Once the Administration's high priest of law-and-order, the former Attorney General and head of Nixon's re-election committee was undoubtedly Nixon's closest political confidant. The two men had known each other intimately ever since Mitchell, a seemingly imperturbable municipal-bond specialist, and...