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...itself. But the play has a parlor-game brittleness and bite, and at its best a thrusting theatricality. Adapter Yaffe needs half an evening of won't-you-walk-into-my-parlor? before he is ready with his parlor game; and is perhaps overready to have his American convict himself, to create another death of a salesman. Even with good acting, the play does not really have enough impact: Duerrenmatt's story does not quite emerge as a well-rounded play; the clever game never quite reaches the level of a serious judgment...
Confidence Man. When the FBI first began hinting last fortnight that ex-Convict Spears might still be alive and in hiding after duping a friend into boarding the National Airlines plane, Radio Newsman Barker called Mrs. Spears, got her to agree to an interview. In that first innocuous interview, Frances Spears insisted that if her husband were alive he "would be here with me and the babies." But if Barker did not at that time get much of a story, he got something else: Mrs. Spears's confidence. She named him her "press adviser," let him stay...
Public & Personal. Most surprising was the extent to which the University of Southern California's Dr. Paul Kotin agreed. Previously, Pathologist Kotin had minimized the importance of smoking, emphasized public air pollution. This time, though he piled up more scientific data to convict public air pollution, Dr. Kotin also plumped for multiple causation. He doubted, he said, that heavy cigarette smoking or "personal air pollution" plays a "primary role" in causing lung cancer, but he granted that it may be guilty as a fellow criminal. The researchers still differed in their theories of sequence: Dr. Eastcott thought British...
...California's San Quentin, Convict-Author Caryl (Cell 2455, Death Row) Chessman, 38, and a score of other condemned men gathered in their recreation room to watch the Rose Bowl football game (see SPORT) on television. Next thing guards knew, Kidnaper-Rapist Chessman and several other cons were pummeling one of their number who, even on death row, is a pariah to his fellow prisoners. By the time the brawl was stopped, the TV set lay smashed on the floor. Chessman, who has a date with the gas chamber in mid-February (his eighth such appointment...
...convict dressed as Father Christmas gave out the presents under a 20-ft. tree. Other convicts served iced cakes, candies and jellies that a former bricklayer had made in the prison kitchen the day before. Guards, unarmed, strolled about in costumes too, but had nothing to worry about: convicts were on their honor. Near by, the African prisoners swung into a haunting Silent Night, And on the fringes of the crowd, snatching bits of paper streamers and begging slices of watermelon, were scores of ragged black children who had not been invited. "Next year," promised a prison warder...