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ROBERT E. EPSTEIN...
...began last fall, when Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, having investigated complaints that authority inspectors were shaking down licensees and applicants, ordered a grand jury investigation. The first witness called was Liquor Authority Chairman Martin Epstein, 70, a Brooklyn political hack who was appointed to his $24,000-a-year post by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960. Epstein, a diabetic whose left leg was recently amputated, was carried before the grand jury on a stretcher. He refused to waive his immunity (a sort of backdoor way of taking the Fifth Amendment), which is grounds for dismissal under the state constitution...
...Epstein's Liquor Authority investigators, Ernest Moss, 39, and Maurice Bernstein, 36, also refused to waive immunity when called before the grand jury. Both were later indicted on charges that they tried to extort $1,000 from the owner of a West Side bar. Two weeks ago, Moss threw himself under a subway train and killed himself...
...Dimension of Mystery. For so mild and retiring a man, Underwood turns fierce when speaking of the "too rapid abandonment of subject matter" that he finds in modern art. "I agree passionately with Jacob Epstein. After trying his hand at abstraction, he told me, 'It's too easily exhausted,' meaning there is no mystery...
...everywhere, even among the dark trunks I want the whisper of gleaming lights, so that this night there will be sweet blood for my cheeks..." It is a revelation. The other characters immediately realize what Blood Wedding is about; Whiting's cold assurance and Death's (Edna Selan Epstein) brilliantly fire the cast...