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Hell is the source of most of the gags. In this latest variation of the Mephistopheles legend, a London short-order cook secretly in love with a waitress sells his soul for seven wishes. He eventually gets it back, but not before each wish backfires on him because he fails to specify the details...
...latest representative of the new thing-the de-Sade-but-true school of literature-it owes something to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, except that Capote is a far better writer than Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor and dramatist (Night Must Fall, The Corn Is Green). Williams enters the lucrative literary creep-stakes, dragging behind him two human monsters and three well-mutilated corpses. He is writing about the "Moors murders," a gruesome three-act melodrama of cold-bloodletting that captivated British headline readers from Nov. 23, 1963, when the first murder occurred, until long after...
...gambling-tax stamp, and pay a 10% excise tax on their annual gross bets. Another law, passed in 1934, called for the taxation and registration of the manufacture, transfer or possession of such underworld weapons as sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Last week, in the latest of several decisions extending the protection of the Fifth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the two laws on grounds that they require persons to give information to the Government that could eventually be self-incriminating...
...nation's women's colleges are consummating liaisons with nearby male universities or otherwise abandoning the single life. Latest is Sarah Lawrence, in Bronxville, N.Y., which last week announced that it is going coeducational. The opening of the spring term will find six male students among the 580 Sarah Lawrence women. All are upper-class transfers from such men's colleges as Amherst, Haverford and Yale. Up to 25 more male transfers will be admitted next September...
...acquisition-minded companies argue that their diversification activities are the best hedge against cyclical swings in a single industry. But conglomerates can have slumps of their own. Litton Industries, a pioneer that chalked up an impressive round of sales and earnings records during fiscal 1967, has announced that its latest quarterly profits (for the three-month period ending Jan. 31) will be "substantially lower" than expected. Much of the blame was laid on management "deficiencies," and Litton said that the problem has now been corrected...