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...outset. Williams tells of a mussy, lolling, almost half-witted young girl married to a much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he gets the order to process his rival's cotton, but the rival supervisor, as hush money, beds the wife. The plot is rowdy Erskine Caldwell with a crueler edge: already, eleven years ago, Williams could make a smoking-car story constitute a criticism of life. Tremendously helpful to 27 Wagons is Maureen Stapleton's brilliantly funny and disturbingly lifelike portrait of the wife...
...Sack's fumbling attempt to hush up his identity has little success. He stands exposed as a Soviet spy, smuggled to our shores to sow the seeds of sabotage...
...could be heard coaching their teammates from far back of the ringside: "Use your right, Joe. Keep jabbin'. For God's sake, jab." And when Idaho State's defending champion, Heavyweight Mike McMurtry, was belted glassy-eyed, a spectator's voice sounded clear above the hush: "That may be the best thing ever hit Mike. He's been thinking of turning pro. I hope this'll cure him." For even the fiercest collegiate fan likes to look on boxing as a sensible sport; few find the pro prize ring a fit place...
...Remington can be ascribed solely to the misadministration of the various correctional institutions and penitentiaries under the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Beatings, sluggings and murder are the order of the day in Danbury, Lewisburg, Atlanta, Chillicothe, Alcatraz, and wherever the prison system has an establishment. These crimes are hush-hushed . . . J. Parnell Thomas came closer to describing accurately the situation [in LIFE, Oct. 4] than anyone I know. It is a well-known axiom in prison that "nobody gives a damn about us" ... It is high time that ... a special congressional committee is set up to investigate the facts quietly...
...raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were saddled with a sort of Montesi case of their...