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...macabre final scene last Friday evening, televised by closed circuit to more than 30 reporters, Evans was secured in the electric chair, known as "Yellow Mama," at the Holman prison near Atmore, Ala. Two guards pulled straps around his shaved head, attached electrodes to his scalp and leg, and left him rigid in the chair, looking small and pale...
...became very protective of our parents. Every time we'd see a long lens poking out from a bush, the whole gang would rush out and throw stones." Isabella still reveres her parents. "Father was an incredible man, both intellectual and emotional at the same time, very original. Mama's strength was her capacity to be direct. She had terrific instincts for dealing with children...
DIED. Harriet Parsons, 76, petite hard-headed producer who made six movies for RKO between 1945 and 1955, including Clash by Night and I Remember Mama; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. The daughter of powerful Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Harriet went from writing for fan magazines and filming shorts to producing Hollywood films, one of a handful of women to do so. Her job often required, she said, "the combined qualities of Solomon and Simon Legree...
From this low, the incredible script sinks to lower and lowest. What the girl really wants is for someone to comfort Mama when she is gone. Although the candidate is happily married with a son of his own, he becomes a surrogate father and husband for the remainder of the dying girl's days. He accompanies mother and daughter on a Christmas holiday outing to New York, takes them for a carriage ride through a snowy Central Park and even manages to get the girl a role in the New York City Ballet's annual production...
...listens. Catastrophes proliferate. His father, who befriended Hitler during their student days in Vienna, expires in a blizzard, muttering "Mama." And Mama dies from tumors engendered by a radioactive mantelpiece. In his home town, a neutron bomb is accidentally exploded. The townsfolk die. The buildings remain...