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Irony -- for which he has perfect pitch -- is his weapon of choice: "Alger Hiss always made his debut escorted by the Gods: He came to Washington with a reference from Felix Frankfurter and he went to Lewisburg ((prison)) with a reference to Frank Costello." In the sentence that opens an essay about one of his favorite subjects, the tragedy (or comedy) of the self-deluded rebel, Kempton dryly sums up another progressive hero: "Paul Robeson's was a career whose rise and fall were both tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity...
...Crimson, however. Pitcher Frank Hogan, who picked up for Irving, pitched three and two-thirds solid innings, giving up only four hits and a run while striking out three. And freshman Terry Hurt, who had appeared in 15 games as non-pitcher, made his collegiate pitching debut a memorable...
...improved food labels make their supermarket debut...
Fifty years after his Broadway debut, Arthur Miller is back...
Playwrights tend to burn out young, so the mere fact that Arthur Miller, 78, opened a new drama on Broadway last week, 50 years after his debut, is noteworthy. Even better, the play is good -- complex, a little mysterious, full of arresting incident, grippingly played. The bad news is that there is so little audience for serious work that its survival is, in the producer's words, "week to week." Only two new plays have had much of a run on Broadway this season, Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the second half of Tony Kushner...