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Kraft TV Theater looked into the case of Mary Surratt, hanged in 1865 for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and, like most historians, found her innocent. Doreen Lang captured believably the quality of a woman too pure-minded to know or guess at the plot that was hatched in her own house; the military court that condemned her to death had that toplofty disregard for the evidence that seems to identify all judges who hear cases with their minds already made...
...Doreen was brooding about the economic situation of the U.S. "Take even this G-string," she cried. 'Five years ago, I could get a real nice one like this for $1.50. Now they're up to $2.50. But my taxes have doubled too. I can't understand it. Why don't we tax England instead of sending them all our taxes...
...million income-taxpaying fish of 1952 are, however, far from the starvation point. They never, they keep telling one another, had it so good. Around March 15, they suspect that they are living in a mirage. This suspicion is confirmed by many economists. A livelier witness is Miss Doreen Gray, no economist but a striptease artist who was performing last week at the Colony Club of Gardena, Calif...
...orchestra pumped out the final bars of St. Louis Blues, whistles and applause filled the club, and Miss Gray hustled offstage wearing two strategically placed bits of red stickum, high-heeled shoes, a silver G-string, and an expression of queenly displeasure. Doreen, a single-minded girl, had been conversing about a thought just before she went on, had kept the thought firmly suspended in her mind during her act, and began conversing about it again just as soon as she was out of sight of the audience...
...broad-shouldered Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche had been showered with 40 awards and medals and 20 honorary academic degrees. One afternoon last week as Bunche, now senior director of the U.N. Trusteeship Department, was eating lunch in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success, his British secretary Mrs. Doreen Daughton dashed up with news of another honor. "I have a surprise for you," she told Ralph Bunche. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize...