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HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fears and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front...
HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fear and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The 5½-day court-martial of ten Bounty mutineers in 1792 is the subject of "Acquit or Hang." an original play by Stanley Miller...
Said Essayist Paul Goodman, a self-styled anarchist, in the current New York Review of Books: "Some kind of martial law and thousands of arrests for sedition are quite thinkable...
Died. Delbert E. Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...