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Variety's London correspondent found it "'sick,' not very pleasant entertainment, though there may be hidden [!] symbolism that justifies some of the more uneasy events." Charles Marowitz' dispatch to the Village Voice called it "the excrescence of the New Drama which has been vacuumed of half a dozen plays and emptied into a new container," and added that "the [leading] actress and the playwright both get splattered when the wit hits...
...working desperately to help the Dominicans rid themselves of the Trujillos without leaving a vacuum for Communism to fill, the compromise seemed a workable answer if not a perfect one. President Kennedy hailed the solution, promised U.S. support in getting the sanctions lifted, increased sugar purchases, and the quick dispatch of Alliance teams to size up the country's development needs...
...Nolting's request, Washington is sending Diem a long, ''clarifying" dispatch. But if Saigon's government-controlled press is to be believed, Diem will be a hard man to budge. The daily Dan Viet, advised by Diem's brother and usually reflecting Diem's views, denounced the U.S. for being too "hasty" in urging "leapfrogging moves toward democracy'' on South Viet Nam. Such a course, said the paper, "will only push Viet Nam into the hands of its bitter enemy, Communism...
Unsportingly, London's Sunday Dispatch revealed the identity of the killer in its review nine years ago. The producers feared that might kill off the play. Instead, the Dispatch itself folded. Mousetrap not only survived but expects to go on snapping for some time to come...
...formative years-they considered it a Mammon-like rival of the pulpit-it did not succeed in establishing itself until the Civil War generated a ravenous public appetite for news and gave it permanent root. But not until Joseph Pulitzer, already the successful publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations and special-interest supplements, Pulitzer's Sunday World face-lifted Sunday journalism. In this, it had considerable help from William Randolph Hearst...