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Sentenced to death. Chapin appeared before a committee of the governor's council sitting as a pardons board. He could give no motive for the double killing beyond the fact that the baby sitter, Lynn Ann Smith, had screamed when she saw the bayonet in his hand. As he told it: "She opened the door, and the knife was in my hand, and she screamed. I was pushed from behind, or catapulted, but nobody was there." Asked whether he wanted his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, Chapin muttered: "Just as soon go, just as soon go." The council voted...
...LYNN B. TIMMERMAN
Adds Harvard Assistant Professor Kenneth S. Lynn, writing in the Harvard Business Review: "The lament that businessmen are treated with universal hostility has become less valid with the passage of time...
Though the current crop of novels and plays may not be right on target, Lynn argues that authors approach their task with an inquiring and often sympathetic mind. Even the barbed humor in such plays as The Solid Gold Cadillac is aimed at the funny bone rather than the jugular. As General Bullmoose, a tycoon's tycoon, says wistfully in the new musical comedy Li'l Abner: "Ever since I was a child, I had a dream. And all that simple child wanted was to get his hands on all the money in the world before the Greatest...
...background-and even for some with -the problem is still a lack of real understanding of what goes on behind company doors. All too often their characters are stereotyped portraits grafted onto a business setting, characters closer to Freud than the factory. Even John P. Marquand argues Harvard Professor Lynn, in Marquand's novel about a businessman, Sincerely, Willis Wayde, has much of the action take place offstage in suburban drawing rooms, thus making it more a novel of manners than of business. Says Lynn: "Like so many writers, Marquand knows society well and the business world...