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...that he had been successfully psychoanalyzed and did not need to be loved. Reacting to a fresh version of Miller's story, Dorso would always say: "I love it. It's just wonderful." Miller learned to listen for the "but.""But," said Dorso, "could I be the devil's advocate for a minute? We've got to be frank with each other at all times, don't we, and I don't have to be loved . . . What CBS wants is a kind of friendly lynch mob scene." Beads for Sale. Miller's Jackie...
That was far from the end of the Jenkins case and its repercussions. At week's end came two new pieces of information. A story in the Chicago Tribune, belatedly confirmed by the FBI, reported that in 1961 Jenkins had "fought like the devil" to reinstate an Air Force officer who had been forced to resign his commission after being accused of making obscene phone calls to the wife of an Air Force enlisted man. The Tribune reported that after tapping the woman's phone and hearing a sampling of the conversations, Government investigators accused the officer...
...Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless. Visibly ruffled, Brezhnev stared down on them and muttered: "K chortu." That meant "Go to the devil," and because someone had forgotten to turn off the mike, the words went out loud and clear...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...
...president, Oxford-educated Alan Simpson, 52, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., following the 18-year reign of Sarah Gibson Blanding. One of his first tasks will be to take part in a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell at a Vassar dormitory. He will play the devil...