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...play is an open letter announcing esthetic impotence, and its dramatic distress signal is that of the faint bleep of an SOS sent from an enemy-occupied country. Staggering about the hotel bar, the painter hero (Donald Madden) spends all of his stage time in an unrelieved agony of mental and physical disintegration that ends in death. His bitchy, sex-starved wife (Anne Meacham) is addicted to plaintive monologues and a frustrated effort to seduce the Japanese barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire...
...recipient, John Madden, 54, owner of a photography studio, had been legally blind from the scarring of the corneas of both eyes. At Methodist Hospital, Dr. Conard D. Moore grafted ; cornea onto Madden's right eye, but after nine days, the graft failed because of severe bleeding. A hazel-eyed Houston man had died of a brain tumor, and Moore decided to make the transplant to the brown-eyed Madden...
...Most of Madden's own right eye was left in place, with its muscles, blood vessels and the all-important optic nerve, intact. What was transplanted was the cornea, with the iris and lens-roughly, the front third of the eyeball. Since the donor eye had been refrigerated and deprived of its blood supply before transplantation, there was little or no chance that it would give Madden any useful vision...
...Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath"). In its place may be the 23rd or 121st Psalm ("I lift my eyes unto the hills") or joyful hymns ending in an alleluia. The homily is modest and uplifting. "We stress that life is not ended but merely changed," says Monsignor James J. Madden of Richmond, Texas...
...five-day race riot in Plainfield in 1967, Gleason, 39, the father of three, shot and wounded a youth who had attacked him with a hammer. He was surrounded by an angry mob of Negroes and stomped, hacked and shot to death. Sentenced to life in prison were Gail Madden, 22, a 250-pounder, whom witnesses identified as the woman in a bright orange dress who stomped Gleason, and George Merritt, 24, who attacked the officer with a meat cleaver. Five of those who were freed had been identified by a witness whose poor eyesight made his testimony worthless. During...